[Samba] Symbolic links not visible on osx 10.10

[Ralph Böhme]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 03:17:08AM +0100, Markus Doits wrote:
> Since I do not see my last messages in the samba mail archive (I replied
> myself), ...

<https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-January/188112.html>

> ... here's the last one I sent with some more information (so
> hopefully they arrive now for everybody?):
> 
> I just found out this is not only happening on the osx clients by
> mounting the share on the server:
> 
> All this below happens on an linux arch server mounting the own share:
> 
> mount //ip.addr/Programs ./tmp -o vers=3.0
> --> non existent symlinks do not show up
> --> cannot create symbolic links ("operation not supported")
> 
> mount //ip.addr/Programs ./tmp -o vers=2.1
> --> non existent symlinks do not show up
> --> cannot create symbolic links ("operation not supported")
> 
> mount //ip.addr/Programs ./tmp -o vers=1.0
> --> non existent symlinks show up
> ---> links are created as real links
> 
> I noticed the mount output shows `nounix` when connecting with 2.1 and 3.0:
> 
> //ip.addr/Programs on /mnt/tmp type cifs
> (rw,relatime,vers=3.0,sec=ntlmssp,cache=strict,username=markus,domain=OFFICE,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=ip.addr,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,nounix,serverino,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,actimeo=1,user=markus)
> 
> This is done automatically, I have no idea how to remove it. (-o unix,
> -o nounix=0 give an error)
> 
> So not only happening on osx client ... :-(
> 
> Is this maybe per protocol? Samba protocol 2.1 and 3.0 not being able to
> use *real*  symbolic links?

I'm busy atm, but I'll revisit as time permits.

-Ralph

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