FlipsideReality

Had a problem recently with nfs shares disconnecting all the time, much to my annoyance.

Turns out that it’s due to the .DS_Store files on the server, so a quick

find / -name [.]DS_Store -exec rm -f {} \;<

on the server sorted that out.

Now to stop leopard from making them, on the client machine run:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

this should hold true for samba mounts too.

the DS_Store file is apparently a hangover from OS9. It holds information relating to the remembered view of the folder, so by deleting them all, and stopping new ones you are forcing the default view on all the networked folders, no biggie