Re: [Samba] MAC Client - Issue Following Symbolic Links

2013-09-27 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:23:34PM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: actually a symlink it should follow. In short the Mac OSX smb clients are a steaming pile of dinosaur droppings which have subtly different behaviour between at least the following versions 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 that makes

Re: [Samba] MAC Client - Issue Following Symbolic Links

2013-09-27 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 01:33 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: [SNIP] Please remember the Mac client developers do hang out on this list, so please make criticism constructive about actual bugs (although I do understand the need to let off steam occasionally). The Linux and smbclient clients

Re: [Samba] MAC Client - Issue Following Symbolic Links

2013-09-26 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:29:18PM -0500, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: I run SAMBA 3.6.15 on a Solaris 10 server that acts as a portal for my MS Windows users into a large number of UNIX servers providing amongst other things web-servers and ftp-servers. The SAMBA server has these varied resources

Re: [Samba] MAC Client - Issue Following Symbolic Links

2013-09-26 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 26/09/13 19:13, Jeremy Allison wrote: [SNIP] Just as a guess, turn off unix extensions (unix extensions = no) in the [global] section of your smb.conf and then restart smbd. While that will probably do the trick the piece of sh*t that is the Mac OSX smb client can still do wacko things