Symbolic link file support.

Ralph Böhme rb at sernet.de
Wed Sep 10 07:02:05 MDT 2014


On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 05:04:49PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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.

Looks like reparse points are the preferred way for creating symlinks
in OS X too, so someone with some interest in that platform may have
to bite the bullet. ;)

-Ralph

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