[Samba] unable to create symlinks on PDC Samba/Ubuntu

[Felipe Augusto van de Wiel]

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On 09/29/2006 03:32 PM, Alessandro Amatizi escreveu:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a CentOS 4 PDC running Samba 3 with 2 file shares and some Ubuntu
> 6.06 Samba 3 clients.
> All is working fine, except when I try to create symlinks: I always get
> "Operation not permitted".
> Is there any way to permit users to create local/remote symlinks on
> files stored on samba mounts ?

	AFAIK, you can't create symlinks (unix symlinks) on Samba
Shares. And there is no workaround, you can create symlinks on the
filesystem and samba clients will see them like regular files, but
AFAICT creating symlinks in Samba shares won't work.


> Thanks

	Kind regards,

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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at paranacidade.org.br>
Coordenadoria de Tecnologia da Informação (CTI) - SEDU/PARANACIDADE
http://www.paranacidade.org.br/           Phone: (+55 41 3350 3300)
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