I have a Windows 2008 server where as administrator I can create symlinks using the mklink command. However if I mount a volume shared out from this server onto a linux box using mount -t cifs and then try to create symlinks (inside the shared directory) using ln -s I get a 'ln: creating symbolic link `test_symlink': Operation not supported' error. I've heard that smb1 does not handle symlinks even if ntfs does. I've tried putting max protocol=smb2 into my smb.conf, but I'm not sure whether 'mount -t cifs' even uses the samba code/configuration file or whether its a separate implementation.
My samba version is 3.5.4 on fedora 13. Cifs is 1.62. I see a lot of comments about 'follow symlinks' and 'unix extensions' in related queries, but I suspect these are all to do with samba SERVERs on linux, whereas I have a linux client and a windows server. How can I make this work? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
