samba - Jun 2010 - Symlink Issue

I've recently upgraded a server and am having an issue with symlinks that
used to work but are now broken.  The links are on one of the filesystems shared
by Samba, but point to directories on an NFS-mounted volume.  The permissions
and export on the NFS volume are such that both root and normal users on this
Samba server can access the contents correctly.  However, when I try to follow
the symlink in Samba via a Windows client, I receive an "Access is
denied" error.  This actually does not seem to be limited to NFS-mounted
volumes - symlinks don't seem to be working across any of the local
filesystems, but they are working within a single filesystem.  My smb.conf file
does contain "wide links = yes"  and "follow symlinks = yes"
both for the particular share about which I'm concerned and in the global
section, but that doesn't seem to help.  Here are some system details:

O/S: SLES11 2.6.27.45-0.1-xen x86_64
Samba: 3.2.7-11.9.1-2306-SUSE-CODE11

Thanks,
Nick



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Nick,

Is it possible that Suse has backported the fix for Bug #7104 
<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7104> into your version?
I believe the lowest version from samba.org with this fix is 3.3.11 
<http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.3.11.html>

Dale

On 06/17/2010 11:39 AM, Nick Couchman wrote:
> I've recently upgraded a server and am having an issue with symlinks
that used to work but are now broken.  The links are on one of the filesystems
shared by Samba, but point to directories on an NFS-mounted volume.  The
permissions and export on the NFS volume are such that both root and normal
users on this Samba server can access the contents correctly.  However, when I
try to follow the symlink in Samba via a Windows client, I receive an
"Access is denied" error.  This actually does not seem to be limited
to NFS-mounted volumes - symlinks don't seem to be working across any of the
local filesystems, but they are working within a single filesystem.  My smb.conf
file does contain "wide links = yes"  and "follow symlinks =
yes" both for the particular share about which I'm concerned and in the
global section, but that doesn't seem to help.  Here are some system
details:
>
> O/S: SLES11 2.6.27.45-0.1-xen x86_64
> Samba: 3.2.7-11.9.1-2306-SUSE-CODE11
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>