[Gllug] Symlinks not following over samba/NFS in linux

[Shannon Carver]

Thanks Ryan,

I'll try this , this morning

Shannon Carver
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2009/7/17 Ryan Cartwright <r.cartwright at equitasit.co.uk>

> 2009/7/17  <salsaman at xs4all.nl>:
> > On Fri, July 17, 2009 02:40, Shannon Carver wrote:
> >> Hmm, still doesn't appear to have worked (tried this on the client
> >> machine).  I was under the impression that smb.conf was for the Samba
> >> daemon
> >> only and not client connections?
> >>
> >> On the other hand, remember that when a windows machine mounts the
> drive,
> >> the link works fine, so I dont think I need to worry about changing
> >> anything
> >> NAS side (the actual Samba settings a little bit slim within the unit).
> >>
> >
> > I was under the impression that vfat and ntfs do not support symlinks,
> and
> > that vista "kind of" supports them.
>
> Those would be native ones within that OS. IME Samba presents host FS
> symlinks as files and directories to Windows clients rather than
> links. So the users will probably not be aware they are not actual
> files/directories. OTOH it's probably presenting them as symlinks to
> the Ubuntu clients. According to Jeremy Allison[1], this is "expected
> behaviour within CIFSFS as it evaluates symlinks locally".
>
> Shannon: what you could try is setting unix extensions to "no" for the
> share within the smb.conf file on the server but that could possibly
> render the default owner-group-world permissions into a windows-esque
> one-user and one-permission setup.  Also, if the link destination is
> outside the current share you could try setting wide links to "yes"
> but if the links are followed on the Widnows clients I'd imagine this
> is not your issue.
>
> HTH
> Ryan
>
> [1]
> http://forum.soft32.com/linux/Samba-Samba-24-6etch10-symlinks-Linux-clients-ftopict472777.html
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