samba - May 2004 - [Samba + CIFS] Symbolic link problems

Hello,

I am using Samba 2.2.8a with 2.6.6 CIFS Linux clients and I've got 
problems with symbolic links : I can't make them point outside the share.

I understand that it is a security feature if the server resolves the 
link. But, in my case, I'd like Samba to serve link files *as is*, so 
that the Unix clients resolve the link.

Symlinks are an important filesystem feature and their lack breaks many 
software, especially when using home directories exported from Samba 
shares. OpenOffice for example, which makes a shorcut from 
'/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/soffice' to
'~/.rhopenoffice-1.1/soffice', and
refuses to start if it can't :(

I've seen previous discussions on this topic, but found no solution.
Cf. <http://groups.google.fr/groups?th=16eee5a8241654f1> and 
<http://groups.google.fr/groups?th=44b101ab6fdb7541>.

Thanks a lot,

-- 
Damiano

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:24:16PM +0200, ALBANI damiano
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Samba 2.2.8a with 2.6.6 CIFS Linux clients and I've got 
> problems with symbolic links : I can't make them point outside the
share.
> 
> I understand that it is a security feature if the server resolves the 
> link. But, in my case, I'd like Samba to serve link files *as is*, so 
> that the Unix clients resolve the link.
> 
> Symlinks are an important filesystem feature and their lack breaks many 
> software, especially when using home directories exported from Samba 
> shares. OpenOffice for example, which makes a shorcut from 
> '/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/soffice' to
'~/.rhopenoffice-1.1/soffice', and
> refuses to start if it can't :(
This isn't going to work with Samba 2.2.x. I recently fixed this and
it will work correctly in Samba 3.0.5. You can try Samba 3.0.5pre1
to test.

Jeremy.