[Samba] unix exts / wide links / symlinks

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:38:58PM +0100, Stefan Götz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> How can I let recent smbd versions let unix clients access and resolve 'wide'
> symlinks locally? My goal is that clients may use any kind of symlink (internal
> and external to a mounted share) like on any other unix-style file system
> without smbd interfering.
> 
> My understanding is that since version 3.4.6, smbd effectively denies access of
> clients to 'wide' symlinks, i.e. out of the share, when unix extensions are on.
> That is at least the behavior I observe on my unix clients. However, the old
> wide link behavior is desirable in my environment.
> 
> Setting the 'wide links' option to yes and/or the 'follow symlinks' to no on the
> server has no effect, neither globally nor on a per-share basis. Is there any
> other way to tell smbd to not meddle with symlinks?

Remove the check in lp_widelinks() (param/loadparm.c) and recompile.

We got bitten badly enough by this that I don't think
this should be a user settable parameter I'm afraid.

Jeremy.