[Samba] s3fs and symlinks

[Lukasz Zalewski]

On 04/07/12 09:37, steve wrote:
> On 04/07/12 01:42, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Hi Andrew, hi everyone
> I didn't know about testparm without samba-tool.
>
> With:
> wide links = Yes
> in [global]
> testparm is clean
> BUT, the symlink gives Access is denied.
>
> Here is the share containing the symlinks:
> [students]
> path = /home2/students/data
> read only = No
>
> Here is an example of the symlink in /home2/students/data pointing to
> the actual data:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 4 09:51 brian ->
> /home2/students/year7/7a/brian
>
> Here is an example of the actual data:
> drwxr-xr-x 21 brian Domain Users 4096 Jul 4 10:24 brian
>
> If the share points at the actual data, we are allowed access. If the
> share points to the links, we get Access is denied.
>
> What have I done wrong?
> Cheers, Steve

Hi Steve,
Check other parameters that Volker mentioned and how they can affect 
each other, for example (from man smb.conf for 3.5.8)
unix extensions (G):
...
Note if this parameter is turned on, the wide links parameter will 
automatically be disabled.

Default: unix extensions = yes

L