[Samba] Wide-Links For a specific Path

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Nov 1 21:12:57 UTC 2021


On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 14:05 -0700, Jeremy Allison via samba wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 04:31:36PM -0400, ralph strebbing wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 12:07 PM Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
> > wrote:
> > > Don't enable SMB1 unix extensions. Are you on Linux ? If so,
> > > why not use bind mounts:
> > 
> > So I looked into it deeper, I don't think we are actually using
> > unix
> > extensions. If there is some way to verify that, I will post the
> > results.
> 
> If you are using SMB2 and not SMB1 (the default) then you
> are not using unix extensions.

Damn, I keep forgetting that :"-)

> 
> > Some clients will be on linux, but most of this use case is for
> > clients on Windows.
> 
> Clients are irrelevent. As Rowland said, what I'm asking is
> what platform the Samba *server* is running on. If it's
> Linux, then you can do what you want (make a different
> area of a filesystem appear under a share) using bind
> mounts.

Ah, but he appears that he is using ZFS, so it could be Freebsd, which
isn't Linux

Rowland





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