Samba4: wide links and unix extensions

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 07:48:49PM +0200, steve wrote:
> On 06/07/12 18:40, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 06:26:37PM +0200, steve wrote:
> >>All my home directories are symlinks from a share to the real data.
> >>
> >>I need wide links for windows clients to follow symlinks. To do
> >>that, I must have
> >>wide links = Yes
> >>unix extensions = No
> >>
> >>This means that if I mount the share on a Linux clients, none of the
> >>acl's are correct.
> >>
> >>I've seen bugzillas that were resolved on the same topic, but from
> >>2010 and not with S4.
> >>
> >>Can we/do we plan to be able to have both server and client working
> >>side to enable:
> >>wide links = Yes
> >>_and_
> >>unix extensions = Yes
> >Is there a particular reason you're using symbol links rather than
> >e.g. a bind mount for your home directory?
> >
> >The consequence of disabling symbolic link support even when unix
> >extensions are enabled (which is what you're asking) would also be that
> >Linux clients wouldn't be able to create symbolic links on the share.
> We aren't bothered about Linux clients creating more symlinks in the
> share. We only want the admin to do that.
> 
> The symlinks in the home share point at different folders.
> 
> the home folder is:
>  /home2/usuarios
> the share is:
>  [usuarios]
> path = /home2/usuarios
> read only  No
> 
> The share contains symlinks to where the real home folders are e.g.
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul  5 17:47 steve2 -> /home2/staff/steve2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul  4 13:07 stephen ->
> /home2/students/year7/7a/stephen
> 
> IOW staff have their home folder in /home2/staff, students in
> /home2/students
> 
> /home2/usuarios is just a pool of symlinks.
> 
> The ldap directory looks like this:
> unixHomeDirectory: /home2/usuarios/steve2
> homeDrive: Z:
> homeDirectory: \\server\usuarios\steve2
> 
> It works OK with NFS for Linux clients and cifs for windows but
> there is the odd share where we'd like to use cifs for both.
How does it work okay with NFS? It doesn't follow symlinks for you
either.

Also, have you considered using bind mounts instead?

Cheers,

Jelmer