[Samba] symbolink links in samba

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0700, gas can wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I thought symbolink links work in samba versions greater than 3 and linux
> kernel 2.9
> I tried mounting a windows XP share with the following options,
> 
> mount -t smbfs //ip/results  /data/results -o username=xxx
> ,password=xxx,gid=502,uid=100,fmask=777,dmask=777,rw 0 0
> 
> I could access the files, create files and directories.
> But, when I tried creating symbolink links* I get operation not permitted.*
> 
> I checked with cifs too, I get the same message.
> Any help regarding this is appreciated.

Should work with cifsfs, not smbfs. What version of Samba ?

Jeremy.