samba - Feb 2006 - How to make a symlink appear as a real file (for a Linux client)?

I have a share with a couple of symlinked files in it.

On a Samba server, it looks like this for "addon" directory:

# ls -l
(...) acrobatreader7
(...) addon -> /home/samba/unattended-write/packages


Now, if I mount it on a Linux client using smbmount, symlinks point to 
non existing directories locally (/home/samba/unattended-write/packages 
exist only on a Samba server):

# smbmount //192.168.111.172/unattended /mnt/1
# ls -l /mnt/1
(...) acrobatreader7/
(...) addon -> /home/samba/unattended-write/packages


On a Windows client, however, I can browse the files in such directories 
just fine.

I would rather expect that to happen on a Linux client, too (i.e., Linux 
client should not see it as symlinks, but as real files/directories).

Where can I look for a solution?

I didn't find anything about it in smbmount nor in smb.conf manuals.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
Software deployment with Samba
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? ????????? ?? 22 ??????? 2006 18:53 Tomasz Chmielewski ???????(a):
maybe you should put 
unix extensions = no
into smb.conf

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Kurt Weiss wrote:
> follow symlinks = yes???
> linux realizes a symlink, maybe you want to use a hardlink?
By default it's yes, and allows Windows clients to see a symlink as a 
real file/dir (Linux cifs will see it as a symlink pointing locally).

When it's set to no, both Windows client and Linux client (using cifs) 
will get an error when trying to access symlinked file/dir.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
Software deployment with Samba
http://wpkg.org

Nick S. Grechukh wrote:
> ? ????????? ?? 22 ??????? 2006 18:53 Tomasz Chmielewski ???????(a):
> maybe you should put 
> unix extensions = no
> into smb.conf
Yeah that was it, thanks!


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
Software deployment with Samba
http://wpkg.org