[TriLUG] Samba and Symlinks

[Joel Ebel]

Samba supports some unix extensions allowing it to deliver symlinks as 
symlinks to unix extension capable clients.  If you want the symlinks to 
be followed on a samba client, you should disable unix extensions on the 
samba server.  Just add the line "unix extensions = no" under the global 
section of your smb.conf.

Joel

Brian Henning wrote:
> <binky> Heyyyyyyy Kids! </binky>
> 
>   Running an FC2 machine in a predominantly Windows network environment,
> using Samba to share some things.  No big deal.  The problem seems to arise
> with the matter of symbolic links.  When I'm mapping a samba share from a
> Windows client, symlinks work perfectly.  But when I mount the share from
> another Linux client, symlinks appear as regular files and do not function
> as they should.  What gives?  I really could benefit from proper symlink
> behavior when I'm mounting from linux computers as well as Windows machines.
> 
> Anyone else run into this?  Is there some parameter I should be handing to
> the smb client?  Since they work normally from a Windows machine, it makes
> me think it's not a config problem on the server.
> 
> Anyhow, thought I'd throw that one out there.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> ~Brian
>