[Samba] Links followed to my local filesystem
Russell Polo
Samba at azimuth-interactive.com
Mon Mar 7 19:52:46 GMT 2005
in reply to this message :
http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg54046.html
I have the same problem. I have an old Redhat 7.3 box that I am trying
to replace with a FC3 box..
when the FC3 box mounts samba directories the symlinks show up as
symlinks ( and are invalid as they point to non-local paths)
When the RedHat 7.3 box mounts the same directories, it is unaware that
the symlinks are not directories. For years I have accumulated symlinks
that files between different projects. So, it's not an easy option to
"stop using symlinks"
I tried installing the old version of samba on the new machine, ( rpm
-U samba-client-2.2.7-3.7.3.i386.rpm samba-common-2.2.7-3.7.3.i386.rpm
--force --nodeps ) it complained but seemed to work. But even with the
OLD rpms the symlinks still show up as symlinks. I am at wits end.
My friend found related link in bugzilla .
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2008
If that is the problem, is there a quick and dirty trick to make the
server think all clients are windows clients? ( clearly not an elegant
solution but would solve the current crisis )
-- Russell Polo
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