[Samba] Massive confusion with samba mounting

[Adam Nielsen]

> Is there any way to make linux see this in the same way Windows does,
> as a hard link that actually leads to the folder/path on the Mac
> machine?

You might want to try disabling UNIX extensions when you mount the
share, I think that will make the symlink show up as a directory.

> One thing I have just checked - if I actually browse the smb server
> with smbclient, everything works - I can drill down through the
> appleshares no problem.  So this may be more of an issue with mount
> -t smbfs than with the samba protocol itself.

AFAIK, smbclient doesn't use UNIX extensions so that could explain it.

Cheers,
Adam.