[Samba] Can a macOS (Posix) client see symlinks on FreeBSD server as symlinks on client?
Jim DeLaHunt
list+samba at jdlh.com
Tue Jan 7 06:11:42 UTC 2025
On 2025-01-06 01:39, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 22:43:23 -0800
> Jim DeLaHunt via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello, Samba folks:
>>
>> Is there a setting I could invoke, either on my server's Samba
>> configuration or on my macOS smbfs configuration, which would make
>> the hundreds of legacy symbolic links on the server's Posix file
>> system appear as symbolic links on the macOS client?
>>
>> Does Samba claim that it will present symlinks on the server file
>> system as symlinks to a client?
>>
>> ...[elided]...
> ...[elided]... There is ongoing work for the SMBv3 version of 'unix extensions', but
> at present (as far as I am aware) there is no support for symlinks and,
> from the comments made by one of the Samba devs, it is unlikely to ever
> support symlinks, though reparse points are likely.
Thank you for the reply, Rowland. This matches a reply at SuperUser
Stack Exchange, <https://superuser.com/a/1824854/114802>. It said,
'[OP's] mount most likely uses SMBv3, which has "POSIX extensions" as
the equivalent, but as far as I know, those are not yet 100% implemented
in Linux and Samba.'
It would be helpful to be able to trace the statement of "Samba server
4.x using protocol SMB 3.1.1 will not create symlinks on server file
system, and will write Minshall+French symlinks only" to release notes
or a roadmap or some other kind of documentation. I don't know Samba's
documentation practices very well. Does that sort of thing get written
down in an authoritative location?
Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
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