Re: [Samba] mac os 10.5.5 and symbolic link to www

[Mike Gallamore]

We had a similar problem. To fix it we added to our global section of  
smb.conf:
follow symlinks = yes

Mac 10.5.X is supposed to have the unix extensions but we found when  
we enabled them we broke clients running older versions. So we also  
have:

unix extensions = no

set. Hope this helps.
On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:19 AM, James Peach wrote:

2008/10/28 Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Can some one clarify that statement a little more for the hard at  
learning
please? Do you mean the MAC is using the SAMBA symlink and  
attempting to
follow it to a location on its local disk?

Yes. Because Windows clients do not understand the SMB protocol
extension the Mac uses in this case, the server follows the symlink on
their behalf (to a location on the server's disk).


"The Mac is almost certainly using the unix extensions to follow  
the symlink
on the client side. If you want the server to follow the symlink  
instead,
you have to turn off unix extension support (unix extensions = no)."

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Kind Regards

Kyle



James Peach wrote:

2008/10/28 Marc Fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


We have a new server running Red Hat 5.2EL.
Windows machines can samba to the linux server with no problems,
including symbolic links to the www directory.
Our Mac OS 10.5.5 machines have a problem with symbolic links to  
the www
directory.
On the Mac computers, the symbolic links show up as an alias that  
cannot
be followed.
These same MAC computers can samba to the www directory via a  
symbolic
link on our Fedora Core 5 server.


The Mac is almost certainly using the unix extensions to follow the
symlink on the client side. If you want the server to follow the
symlink instead, you have to turn off unix extension support (unix
extensions = no).




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