[Samba] Symbolic link gets overwritten

Martin Schuster
Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:49:49 -0000

Hi,
Using Samba 3.0.1 on SuSE Linux (follow symlinks on) we noticed the following
behaviour:

A symbolic link to a file gets overwritten (replaced) by the target-file
contents if the symbolic link is saved from a windows client.

This is not what we expected, because a link represents the file, and so all
actions executed on the link should actually be executed on the target-file, not
the link.

I found one and only one message in the mailing archives about this topic (5 Feb
02:45, Francis Vierboom, "samba and writing through hard/symbolic
links") and the answer was "what samba did was to follow very
precisely the instructions given by your MS Windows software", which is the
wrong point of view, I think, because then samba should also deliver the
symbolic link file, not the file the link points to, right?

Is there any setting / patch / anything we can do to make samba use symbolic
links correctly?

Thanks a lot,
Martin Schuster
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