How do I blacklist certain directories in Samba?

Question

I am exporting a directory via Samba to my home theater PC. Unfortunately XBMC is also displaying some working directories that I happen to be sharing inside that directory.

I would like to find a way to have Samba ignore certain directories so that they are not shared with the other PCs.

This is purely for vanity reasons so the solution doesn't need to be totally perfect (So a workaround would be fine, it doesn't have to be production quality)

Answer 1

I'm thinking "veto files" is the option you're looking for, as shown here:
http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1299
add the line in smb.conf under the particular share to exclude sub-directories explicitly

[myshare]
  path = /var/test
  veto files = /var/test/private

more syntax examples here: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#VETOFILES

Answer 2

hide files = file1/file2/$*/System Volume Information also hides the folder from share