To suppress the display of system files (configuration files, those that start with a dot) when connecting from a Windows computer to your samba server, write the following into the /etc/samba/smb.conf:
hide dot files = yes
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How to load kernel modules upon startup? Everytime I want to connect my ipod I have to load the hfsplus kernel module. So I decided to load it automatically upon system bootup. In Suse 9, kernel modules that are supposed to be loaded after the main file system has mounted are specified in /etc/sysconfig/kernel: MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT=" cdrom ide-cd ide-scsi hfsplus"