Chang, Jason
2014-Sep-15 23:31 UTC
[Samba] DFS symlinks shown as broken through file management software.
I have setup a samba dfs server and file managers on linux only see broken symlinks. Is there a linux file managers that can handle the dfs symlinks correctly? So far I tried thunar, nautilus and Gnome commander. All is failing with the dfs symlinks. Commandline navigation seems to work fine through mounted volume and windows clients can navigate around the shared volume with explorer without issue. Any thoughts?
Jeremy Allison
2014-Sep-16 00:38 UTC
[Samba] DFS symlinks shown as broken through file management software.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:31:56PM +0000, Chang, Jason wrote:> I have setup a samba dfs server and file managers on linux only see > broken symlinks. Is there a linux file managers that can handle the dfs > symlinks correctly? > So far I tried thunar, nautilus and Gnome commander. All is failing with > the dfs symlinks. > > Commandline navigation seems to work fine through mounted volume and > windows clients can navigate around the shared volume with explorer > without issue. > > Any thoughts?smbd DFS symlinks will present as broken to all Linux file managers. They are specific encodings of MS-SMB paths inside symlinks.