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.
Hi,
does this mean, that when using SAMBA 3.0.5 I can mount CIFS-Shares from a W2K Server and use symbolic links in the share pointing to a local directory, i.e. /tmp, to mount home directories as cifs share?
When will 3.0.5 be released?
Thanks.
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