Excluding files with wildcard does not work

Hi,

I’m trying to exclude all files begining with a ‘.’, so i added an exluding rule like this : * \ . *
Unfortunately this doesn’t work, and in my case i get a lot of errors because of this kind of file. What am i missing around the excluding rule? i thought it would be pretty simple… My server is 2.1.19, and the clients 2.1.16

Thanks