[Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www

[James Peach]

2008/10/28 Kyle <kl at attitia.com>:
>
> 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?

Yes. Because Windows clients do not understand the SMB protocol
extension the Mac uses in this case, the server follows the symlink on
their behalf (to a location on the server's 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)."
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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