[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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