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

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:20:29PM +0100, 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!

Turn off the unix extensions on the server or client. That's what causes
symlinks to be resolved on the client.

Jeremy.