When the vfs_recycle object is enabled files whose name is an extension of the recycle bin repository name (i.e. “recycle” and “recycleme”) are not moved to the recycle bin and directly removed instead. Configuration: [public] force group = nogroup force user = nobody guest ok = yes guest only = yes hide unreadable = yes path = /srv/public recycle:keeptree = yes recycle:repository = recycle recycle:touch = yes recycle:versions = yes vfs objects = recycle writeable = yes Start point on server: $ ls -Rl /srv/public /srv/public: total 4 drwx------ 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Feb 5 23:39 recycle /srv/public/recycle: total 0 Upload files from client: $ smbclient --user=guest -N '\\server\public' smb: \> put /bin/ls recycleme putting file /bin/ls as \recycleme smb: \> put /bin/ls garbage putting file /bin/ls as \garbage smb: \> ls recycleme recycleme N […] smb: \> ls garbage garbage N […] Layout on server: $ ls -Rl /srv/public /srv/public: total 236 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 118280 Feb 5 23:42 garbage drwx------ 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Feb 5 23:39 recycle -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 118280 Feb 5 23:40 recycleme /srv/public/recycle: total 0 Delete from client: $ smbclient --user=guest -N '\\server\public' smb: \> del garbage smb: \> del recycleme Expected on server: $ ls -Rl /srv/public /srv/public: total 4 drwx------ 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Feb 5 23:45 recycle /srv/public/recycle: total 116 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 118280 Feb 5 23:42 garbage -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 118280 Feb 5 23:40 recycleme *Actual* situation on server: $ ls -Rl /srv/public /srv/public: total 4 drwx------ 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Feb 5 23:45 recycle /srv/public/recycle: total 116 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 118280 Feb 5 23:42 garbage Note how “recycleme” was deleted without being moved to the recycle bin. This was observed in Samba 4.2.14 as distributed in Debian Jessie and confirmed via source code inspection in the v4-6-stable and master branches as of February 6, 2017. I believe the responsible code is at <https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=blob;f=source3/modules/vfs_recycle.c;hb=refs/tags/samba-4.6.0rc2#l483>.