| SYSTEM INFORMATION | |
|---|---|
| Debian | 12 |
| Webmin version | 2.400 |
Hi, it would be nice if Webmin could enable and configure the “Recycle bin” VFS module on Samba shares, which is part of the samba-vfs-modules package in Debian / Ubuntu. This functionality is described here (sorry, not a clickable link to avoid hitting the Discourse spam filters with my new user account):
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/old/Samba3-HOWTO/VFS.html#id2651247https://poweradm.com/samba-recycle-bin-linux/The first link to the Samba documentation for this functionality was outdated, here’s the latest:
This is the manual configuration that I added per share. For my public share that has guest access I added this to the Samba config file via the Webmin interface:
### Recycling ###
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:repository = .recycle
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:versions = yes
recycle:touch = no
recycle:exclude = ?~$*,~$*
recycle:exclude_dir = .recycle
### /Recycling ###
For the homes share that only allows authenticated user access I used this config to create a homes/[username]/.recycle directory for each user (I can’t find the username wildcard in the official Samba documentation, elsewhere I’ve see both %u and %U, but at any rate my example works):
### Recycling ###
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:repository = %u/.recycle
## Also manually chmod 0770 .recycle/username
## https://linux.samba.narkive.com/RW4iF19R/samba-permission-problem-with-vfs-object-recycle-directory-mode
recycle:directory_mode = 0770
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:versions = yes
recycle:touch = no
recycle:exclude = ?~$*,~$*
recycle:exclude_dir = .recycle
### /Recycling ###
It looks like you can use either absolute path names or relative path names like I did that start without a /
So the config looks fairly straightforward to parse if it could be added to the per-share config options in Webmin’s Samba module.