On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:24:16PM +0200, ALBANI damiano wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Samba 2.2.8a with 2.6.6 CIFS Linux clients and I've got > problems with symbolic links : I can't make them point outside the share. > > I understand that it is a security feature if the server resolves the > link. But, in my case, I'd like Samba to serve link files *as is*, so > that the Unix clients resolve the link. > > Symlinks are an important filesystem feature and their lack breaks many > software, especially when using home directories exported from Samba > shares. OpenOffice for example, which makes a shorcut from > '/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/soffice' to '~/.rhopenoffice-1.1/soffice', and > refuses to start if it can't :(
This isn't going to work with Samba 2.2.x. I recently fixed this and it will work correctly in Samba 3.0.5. You can try Samba 3.0.5pre1 to test. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
