On Jul 14, 2010, at 5:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2010-07-14 18:03 , LuKreme wrote:
>> I have a folder /Volumes/Drive1/Movies and inside that folder I have a link
>>
>> # ln -s /Volumes/Drive2/Kids /Volumes/Drive1/Movies/
>
> so when you have Drive1/Movies mounted, and you click Kids, do you expecty
> the server to follow the symlink in its environment and serve up a file on a
> volume that is not currently shared to the client? or do you expect the
> client to follow the symlink by automounting Drive2?
>
> either way, it seems lots of people have this problem
>
> <http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=samba+%22follow+symlinks%22+%22os+x%22>
>
> and here is some potentially helpful advice?
>
> <http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=82393>
>
> not sure why the behavior may have changed
Sounds like somebody fixed a security hole. You shouldn't be able to follow a
link off a shared network volume to a non-shared network volume. It works fine
locally because the access model is different in OS X.
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