[Samba] How to make a symlink appear as a real file (for a Linux client)?

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Thu Feb 23 08:19:03 GMT 2006


Kurt Weiss wrote:
> follow symlinks = yes???
> linux realizes a symlink, maybe you want to use a hardlink?

By default it's yes, and allows Windows clients to see a symlink as a 
real file/dir (Linux cifs will see it as a symlink pointing locally).

When it's set to no, both Windows client and Linux client (using cifs) 
will get an error when trying to access symlinked file/dir.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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