[Samba] Can a macOS (Posix) client see symlinks on FreeBSD server as symlinks on client?
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Tue Jan 7 21:12:08 UTC 2025
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 09:50:49PM +0100, Kees van Vloten via samba wrote:
>
>No.
>Even when smb3 unix-extensions are fully implemented in Samba, the
>Posix symlinks on the server-side will never be forwarded as symlink
>to the client. Symlinks are the cause of many security issue and are
>therefor handled with care by Samba.
Not quite right Kees. The client will be aware of the symlink
but it will be the client responsibility to follow it. The
server should not do so (although it does do this at present
and can probably be configured to keep doing so for compatibility).
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