Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes: > I also remember there being some command you could run on the Mac that would > prevent the finder from creating .DS_Store files $ defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true > , but I don't know if that prevents it from looking for them too. A quick check; over SMB it still looks for them according to ethereal. So.. no.