Pesky .DS_Store Files on Remote Servers.
I was getting annoyed with .DS_Store files cropping up everywhere on remote drives, eg via samba when accessing them from Mac OSX so i set out to find a solution. Just enter this command in Terminal.app to stop the creation of the files on remote servers by the finder.
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
To undo it just change true to false in the above command.
More info here.
-Richard