Can I have a trash/recycle folder in Samba like I have on my desktop?

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Yes. Samba has the ability to move deleted items on a Samba share to a designated recycle folder similar to the way files are deleted on your local machine. This is an advantage over the standard Samba configuration because normally if a file is deleted by a user on a Samba share it is deleted permanently. One obvious disadvantage is that this will increase the amount of disk space required on...

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