[Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www

[Marc Fromm]

The old server that allows the Mac to use the symbolic link to the /var/www directory does not have the "unix extensions = no" in its smb.conf file, thus I must assume it is using the default "yes" setting as well.

Any idea as to how the old server is letting the Mac use the symbolic link, with the "unix extensions = yes" setting?
Why do other symbolic links work on the Mac that is connecting to the new server that cannot follow the www symbolic link?

-----Original Message-----
From: James Peach [mailto:jorgar at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:42 AM
To: Marc Fromm
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www

2008/10/29 Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm at wwu.edu>:
>>(unix extensions = no)
> My smb.conf does not contain unix extensions option.

"unix extensions = yes" is the default that will be used if smb.conf
does not specify otherwise

> Is this a setting on the mac that I need to change?

you need to change it on the server

>> If you want the server to follow the symlink instead, you have to turn off unix extension support
> I'm not sure about the above comment. On the server I can follow the symbolic link to the
> www directory, it only does not work when a Mac makes a samba connection and on the
> Mac I try to go to the www directory.

Because the target of the symlink is a location on the server. When
the Mac client tries to resolve the symlink, it will try to access the
corresponding location on the client.

If you turn the unix extensions support off, then the server will
follow the symlink and the Mac will behave just like the Windows
clients


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Peach [mailto:jorgar at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:40 PM
> To: Marc Fromm
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www
>
> 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).
>
>>
>> Since the www symbolic link works on a PC that sambas to the Red Hat server, is this strictly a problem on the macs or is there a setting I need to change in a conf file on the Red Hat server, since the same Macs can use the symbolic link to the www directory on the Fedora server?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Marc
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