[Samba] reiserfs, samba, symlinks and windows
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 15:27:46 GMT 2008
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Jason Gerfen <jason.gerfen at scl.utah.edu> wrote:
> I am having a hard time getting a Windows XP virtual machine to follow a
> symlink share to a localhost samba share with 'follow symlinks = yes'
>
> I have been googling this for a couple of hours now and have found some
> references but not definite fix.
>
> Error from samba:
> '/tmp/Desktop' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to
> [desktop] Error was Permission denied
>
> System:
> Linux Gentoo-x86 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 #3 SMP Thu Jan 3 11:46:35 MST 2008
> i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> Samba 3.0.28
>
At work I use amd64 gentoo and samaba-3.0.28a and simlinks work just
fine. It must be a permissions problem. Does the windows XP user have
permissions on the /tmp folder on the gentoo box?
John
John
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