[Samba] Automount homes via smb question

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:26:48PM -0800, Mike Ely wrote:
> 
> >>> Also, we have the problem of
> >>> special files over CIFS - your Win2k server probably will not like
> >>> attemptes to create symbolic links.
> >>>
> Hmm.  I don't like where this leads... I'm thinking in particular of 
> /tmp... is there no CIFS interface to create windows "shortcuts" or are 
> those so very different from symlinks?

They are - steve french was looking at coming up with come method to
represent such 'special files', but the 'correct' semantics is rather
unclear...

(It's also an issue for Samba servers, as we block certian symlinks,
in particlar the one to /tmp that kde makes on startup).

Andrew Bartlett