Symbolic link file support.

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 05:01:25PM -0700, Hemanth Thummala wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> We are using samba 3.6.12 stack. looks like we are unable to create the
> symbolic links. They failing with status "not a reparse point"
> 
> X:\>mklink /D X:\lnk_file X:\FOO\BAR
> The file or directory is not a reparse point.
> 
> Packet capture shows that specific IOCTL call is failing
> STATUS_NOT_A_REPARSE_POINT
> error.
> 
> 107 3.135447000 x.x.x.x y.y.y.y SMB2 258 Ioctl Request FILE_SYSTEM
> Function:0x0029 File: lnk_file
> 108 3.138991000 y.y.y.y x.x.x.x SMB2 143 Ioctl Response, Error:
> STATUS_NOT_A_REPARSE_POINT
> 
> "follow symlinks = yes" is still enabled.
> 
> Is there any other options that I need to enable symlink file creation
> support?

We don't currently support creating reparse points,
there's never been a demand for it.

Should be an interesting minor project to do it
though :-).