[linux-cifs-client] Links horribly broken by 2.6 kernel !

[Chris Shelton]

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Hari,

You might want to add: 

   unix extensions = no

to your smb.conf file on the samba server you are connecting to.  That 
is likely what is happening to cause your problem.  Read the man page 
for smb.conf, and the README for cifsfs to understand this in more 
detail.

chris

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 at 3:20pm, Hari Sekhon wrote:

> I've got a linux box with a 2.6 kernel that breaks things by showing links
> on the remote side of an smb connection instead of following them...
> 
> I've tried both 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 kernels and it occurs in both, but this
> didn't used to happen on the old machine which had a 2.4 kernel.
> 
> I'm sure this is somebody bright idea for security but has caused a huge
> problem in that none of my backups now work which were linked into a single
> samba share for each machine.
> 
> 
> Worse, the links point to the local machine so I could have 50 copies of the
> same directories from the local machine instead of those from the 50 remote
> linux machines!
> 
> 

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Chris Shelton
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