[Samba] reiserfs, samba, symlinks and windows

[Jason Gerfen]

I thought that as well at first but if I change the default share to
'/tmp' I am able to map the drive but I am NOT able to view any of the
symlinks in that directory with windows.

John Drescher wrote:
> 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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