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

[Hari Sekhon]

thanks that's done it, but now I have to go round to every server to do
this, there should really be a way of telling the client to not use this
"feature", but there doesn't seem to be anything in the man pages. Sorry, if
I'd known to read the server man pages instead of the client man pages I
could have found this for myself.

What is the point of allowing symlinks to point to your local system by way
of this so-called unix extensions?

Hari


On 25/07/06, Chris Shelton <cshelton at indiana.edu> wrote:
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> Hari,
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> You might want to add:
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>    unix extensions = no
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> 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.
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> chris
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> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 at 3:20pm, Hari Sekhon wrote:
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> > 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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