[Samba] Overwriting Symbolic Links

[Jeffrey M. Johnson]

I am having a "unique" problem with samba and can't seem to find a solution
to the problem.

 

I am running a samba 3.0.5 server on a Solaris 2.9 Server.

 

All Samba does is map the users home directory to there windows desktop.

 

In the home directory we have symbolic links to our web-server so users can
access their web-related content.  We have two types of symbolic links, one
to directories and others to specific files.

 

lrwxrwxrwx   1 user group           44 Apr  6 16:13 file.html ->
/htdocs/file.html

 

lrwxrwxrwx   1 user group           44 Apr  6 16:13 directory ->
/htdocs/directory

 

If a user modifies a file in directory there is no problem everything works
fine.

 

If a user modifies the file.html it over rights the file

 

-rwxrw-r--   1 user group          206 Apr  6  2005 file.html

 

However the problem does not exist with every piece of software, for example
notepad and wordpad do not overwrite the file while word and dreamweaver
does.

 

Any have a solution to this problem.

 

Jeff