[Samba] Random disconnects from Samba server

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Mar 16 22:56:29 UTC 2018


On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:13:07PM +0000, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:43:39 +0000
> "Hirayama, Pat" <phirayam at fredhutch.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rowland,
> > 
> > Thank you.  Unfortunately, I do need widelinks -- in fact, that is
> > the main purpose for this Samba server -- the users connect to their
> > home share and follow the Linux symlinks that reside there to other
> > (remote) file systems, rather than navigating a really long directory
> > path. 
> 
> There must be a better way of doing this, dfs shares ??

+1 to that - DFS links are a *much* safer way of doing this.

Don't follow symlinks outside the share, that's evil and
will eventually bite you.



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