[linux-cifs-client] Can't create symlink on a windows share
Jeff Layton
jlayton at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 19:41:04 GMT 2009
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:09:05 +0100
brice.rouanet at iut-tlse3.fr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I user samba 3.2.5 with 2.6.28 kernel and I mount homes from a windows
> 2008 with pam_mount with this options :
>
> sec=krb5,guest,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755
>
> Mount is successfull but i can't create a symlink in the home :
>
> user1 at debian:~$ ln -sf aa rr
> ln: creating symbolic link `rr': Permission non accordée
>
> Here there is the home acl :
>
> user1 at debian:~$ ls -al
> total 5
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 jan 12 11:09 .
> drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 nov 20 18:51 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 user1 utilisateurs du domaine 0 jan 12 11:09 aa
>
Windows generally doesn't support the necessary SMB protocol extensions
to create a symlink. Do you have SFU services enabled on the Win2k8
host? You might be able to get it to work with that, but I don't know
for sure.
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
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