On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 21:35, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:01:19PM +0100, Simo Sorce wrote: > > My idea was this: > > let make it so taht if unix extensions are enabled, then we NEVER > > resolve the links if we permit link creation. > > If we do not want to have it so rigid, we may also add a proper option, > > something like "wide unix symlinks" with all the proper warnings and > > normally disabled. Then if you do a normal call, the link will be > > honoured only if inside the exported file system. > > > This way the trick cannot work, and unix applications (or setups) that > > rely on symlinks to work well are happy. > > If symlinks will never be resolved outside of the exported share, why do > you need to resolve them on the server at all? A Unix client is equally > capable of resolving this symlink on the server.
They ARE resolved for normal CIFS clients that does not ask for UNIX extensions. -- Simo Sorce - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Samba Team - http://www.samba.org Italian Site - http://samba.xsec.it
