[Samba] Using group membership to access a symlink directory

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Nov 15 11:45:01 GMT 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 16:56 -0600, Chris Barnes wrote:
> I am having a problem getting Samba to use the linux group membership 
> when following a symlink.
> 
> On the Linux side, I have a soft link from the user's home directory to 
> the shared directory.
>   ln -s /home/shared/testgroup testshare
> 

> IF the user maps to the "testshared" share, it works perfectly (ie. uses
> the group membership to give access).  However, if they try to browse to
> the testgroup "directory", it does not grant them access.
> 
> It shouldn't matter, but I have even changed the symlink 'file' to have
> the user be the owner.  Still no dice.

Can you access this on linux as the user?  ie, if you remove samba from
the equation, does it work?


Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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