[Samba] s3fs and symlinks

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 15:14 +0200, steve wrote:
> On 03/07/12 14:33, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:48:26PM +0200, steve wrote:
> >> Hi everyone
> >>
> >> I have a problem with S4 following symlinks.
> >>
> >> In windows, I can access a share ¡f the the path is the actual
> >> directory but not if the share contains a symlink to the same
> >> directory. I get access errors.
> >>
> >> In Linux under NFS, I can access the share either directly via the symlink.
> >>
> >> Does s3fs understand symlinks at the moment?
> >
> > Look for "wide links", "unix extensions" and "allow insecure
> > wide links" in "man smb.conf".
> >
> > Volker
> >
> Hi Volker
> Unfortunately, wide links (which I think is what I need) doesn't work:
> samba-tool testparm
> Unknown parameter encountered: "wide links"
> Ignoring unknown parameter "wide links"
> Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
> 
> and samba_spnupdate throws errors too.

Regardless of the errors, they will still work.  We have two loadparm
engines, and we have not yet reconciled them.  It remains a tedious job
that hasn't yet been finished. 

To check if a parameter is accepted by the file server component, run
'testparm' rather than 'samba-tool testparm'.

Andrew Bartlett

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