[Samba] client-side symlinks ?

[Michael Tokarev]

04.05.2023 15:12, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On 04/05/2023 12:57, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is it possible for windows to actually see and use symlinks on samba server?
>> Windows NTFS does have notion of junctions and symbolic links, so when one
>> open file A (which is a symbolic link), windows actually opens file B.
>> Can such mechanism be used when A is on samba share?

> Samba by default can follow symlinks in a share, see the 'follow symlinks' parameter in 'man smb.conf', but is stopped from following symlinks outside 
> a share by the 'allow insecure wide links' parameter which is set to 'no' by default.

I know quite well about samba being able to follow symlinks.
I'm asking if samba can tell the client this is a symlink,
so that *client* will follow this symlink. The same way windows
does this when I export a share containing symlink from another
windows machine.

Thanks,

/mjt