[Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www

[Mike Gallamore]

We had a similar problem. To fix it we added to our global section of  
smb.conf:
follow symlinks = yes

Mac 10.5.X is supposed to have the unix extensions but we found when  
we enabled them we broke clients running older versions. So we also  
have:

unix extensions = no

set. Hope this helps.
On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:19 AM, James Peach wrote:

> 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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