[Samba] Links followed to my local filesystem

Russell Polo Samba at azimuth-interactive.com
Mon Mar 7 22:04:30 GMT 2005


THANK YOU ...

That did it.... I guess will keep my job. ;-)

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:52:46PM -0500, Russell Polo wrote:
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>>in reply to this message :
>>http://www.mail-archive.com/samba@lists.samba.org/msg54046.html
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>>I have the same problem. I have an old Redhat 7.3 box that I am trying 
>>to replace with a FC3 box..
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>>when the FC3 box mounts samba directories the symlinks show up as 
>>symlinks ( and are invalid as they point to non-local paths)
>>
>>When the RedHat 7.3 box mounts the same directories, it is unaware that 
>>the symlinks are not directories. For years I have accumulated symlinks 
>>that  files between different projects. So, it's not an easy option to 
>>"stop using symlinks"
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>>I tried installing the old version of  samba on the new machine, (  rpm 
>>-U samba-client-2.2.7-3.7.3.i386.rpm samba-common-2.2.7-3.7.3.i386.rpm 
>>--force --nodeps ) it complained but seemed to work. But even with the 
>>OLD rpms the symlinks still show up as symlinks. I  am at wits end.
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>>My friend found related link in bugzilla .
>>https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2008
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>>If that is the problem, is there a quick and dirty trick to make  the 
>>server think all clients are windows clients? ( clearly not an elegant 
>>solution but would solve the current crisis )
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>Yeah, you could turn off the unix extensions ("unix extensions = no").
>That would do it. Hmmmm. I need to think about this issue a bit....
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>Jeremy.
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