[Samba] Deletion of directory symlink via Samba deletes files in original subdirectory on Unix

Diego Zuccato diego.zuccato at unibo.it
Thu Dec 3 01:07:04 MST 2009


Kathy wrote:

> The directories are group owned by a bunch of engineers so all members
> of that group have permissions to delete all of it:  symlink, subdir,
> and files in the subdir.  If they do this on the Unix side, it only
> deletes the symlink and sometimes they have scripts on the Windows
> side that need to delete the symlinks, hence the issue we're seeing
> now.
Uhm... Just a wild guess: win sees that folder is not empty, then first 
removes all the files in it, then the folder itself. Too bad the folder 
was a symlink, but the files were not...

Does win show the symlink as a link or as a real folder?

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Diego Zuccato
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