samba - Nov 2004 - Improper link handling?

Samba supports links now, right?  I was recently experimenting with a 
setup for cross-platform access to a user's FireFox bookmarks. 
Unfortunately, FireFox overwrites the link to the bookmarks file on 
exit. How is this possible if Samba is interpreting the link correctly? 
  Shouldn't the file that the bookmarks link points to be overwritten 
instead?  Both the link and the file are on the same share and it is 
described as follows:

samba-server-3.0.6-4.1.100mdk
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         valid users = %S
>         read only = No
>         hide special files = Yes
>         browseable = No
>         vfs objects = recycle
>         recycle:repository = ./Desktop/Trash
>         recycle:noversions = *.doc|*.xls|*.ppt
>         recycle:excludedir = /tmp|/temp|/cache
>         recycle:exclude = *.tmp|*.temp|*.o|*.obj|~$*|*.~??
>         recycle:maxsize = 0
>         recycle:versions = Yes
>         recycle:touch = Yes
>         recycle:keeptree = Yes

Jim C.
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Jim C. wrote:
| Samba supports links now, right?  I was recently experimenting with a
| setup for cross-platform access to a user's FireFox bookmarks.
| Unfortunately, FireFox overwrites the link to the bookmarks file on
| exit. How is this possible if Samba is interpreting the link correctly?
|  Shouldn't the file that the bookmarks link points to be overwritten
| instead?  Both the link and the file are on the same share and it is
| described as follows:

Samba has always supported symlinks.  The changes you are thinking
of had to do with the link semantics enforced by the Samba server
when communicating with a UNIX client using 'unix extensions'

firefox is probably doing a unlink and rename for the new
bookmarks file.  A level 10 debug log would verify this.






cheers, jerry
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