Problems with symlinks (unlink) and Unix extensions in Samba 3.05rc1

[Guenther Deschner]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Sergio Talens-Oliag wrote:
>   I've been trying to use Samba to export Unix home directories (using
>   smbfs on the linux clients) and I've found a problem while trying to
>   use the Mozilla web browser on Linux.
> 
>   At first I was using Samba 3.0.4 with the following global settings:
> 
>     unix extensions = yes
>     follow symlinks = yes
>     wide links = yes
>     
>   After some research I found that I was having problems with symlinks
>   and upgraded to Samba 3.0.5rc1, which solves some of my problems, but
>   Mozilla still does not work.

unless you have a patched version of smbfs, smbfs does not have native
support for CIFS Unix Extensions (that let you permit to create proper
symlinks).

You could try cifsfs instead.

Guenther
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