[Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www

[Kyle]

Can some one clarify that statement a little more for the hard at 
learning please? Do you mean the MAC is using the SAMBA symlink and 
attempting to follow it to a location on its local disk?

"The Mac is almost certainly using the unix extensions to follow the 
symlink on the client side. If you want the server to follow the symlink 
instead, you have to turn off unix extension support (unix extensions = 
no)."

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Kind Regards

Kyle



James Peach wrote:
> 2008/10/28 Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm at wwu.edu>:
>   
>> We have a new server running Red Hat 5.2EL.
>> Windows machines can samba to the linux server with no problems, including symbolic links to the www directory.
>> Our Mac OS 10.5.5 machines have a problem with symbolic links to the www directory.
>> On the Mac computers, the symbolic links show up as an alias that cannot be followed.
>> These same MAC computers can samba to the www directory via a symbolic link on our Fedora Core 5 server.
>>     
>
> The Mac is almost certainly using the unix extensions to follow the
> symlink on the client side. If you want the server to follow the
> symlink instead, you have to turn off unix extension support (unix
> extensions = no).
>
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