[Samba] Can a macOS (Posix) client see symlinks on FreeBSD server as symlinks on client?

Kees van Vloten keesvanvloten at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 21:18:08 UTC 2025


Op 07-01-2025 om 22:12 schreef Jeremy Allison:
> 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).

Fair enough, I interpreted "Samba" in this situation as the smb-server. 
But indeed Samba also has a smb-client implementation :-)




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