[Samba] No symlink support on SMB2 and SMB3?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jan 23 14:08:31 MST 2015


On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:05:44PM +0100, Markus Doits wrote:
> 
> On 23.01.15 19:57, Miguel Medalha wrote:
> > I am using Samba 4.1.16 with smb2/3 and symbolic links are working alright.
> >
> > Following the smb.conf man page, I use:
> >
> > unix extensions = no
> > wide links = yes
> >
> >
> Unfortunately this still does not work for me - can you really make a
> symbolic link ("ln -s ...") when you are connected with smb2/3? Does
> "smbstatus" really show smb2/3 connection?

No you can't - the protocol doesn't support it.


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