[Samba] Deletion of directory symlink via Samba deletes files in original subdirectory on Unix

[Kathy]

Hi Andy --

The directories are group owned by a bunch of engineers so all members
of that group have permissions to delete all of it:  symlink, subdir,
and files in the subdir.  If they do this on the Unix side, it only
deletes the symlink and sometimes they have scripts on the Windows
side that need to delete the symlinks, hence the issue we're seeing
now.

Kathy


>
> I don't have a solution to your problem, although I discovered a similar
> problem in Samba's behavior with symlinks to FILES.  Getting good Level 10
> logs was key to figuring out what the problem was -- and fixing it.  That
> got fixed in 3.0.14 or 3.0.15 I believe.
>
> I myself make extensive use of symlinks to DIRECTORIES in my applications.
>  If you're thinking about a workaround, here's a question:
>
> What are the permissions on the directories that the symlinks point to? If a
> user could directly see one of those directories, would he/she be able to
> delete it?
>
> Andy
>