Linda Walsh
2011-Jun-06 01:30 UTC
[Samba] upgrade prob; extension conflict-workaround or fix yet? (widelinks & unix ext)
I just upgraded my samba to my dist's version: (3.5.7) and got a message: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 Ishtar smbd[8204]: Share 'IPC$' has wide links and unix extensions enabled. These parameters are incompatible. Wide links will be disabled for this share. This used to work, though admittedly, I think it was because I had a 'fixed' version that removed the check in anticipation of the official switch that would allow this. I **WANT** to be able to control my 'widelinks' from my windows workstation.... My setup is that my 'windows workstation(s)' are divided in 2, with their file system being on the smb server. So me being able to manage links from my windows workstation is an ease of use issue. It's 'sad' there's no way to define / separate user owned links from 'system' links...i.e. if the ownership on 'symlinks' wasn't so hard to change and was able to be used reliably for ones created by users vs. 'trusted' links created by 'root'.... That would address (I think) security concerns of this feature... But in my local case, security isn't a concern, since the linux-fs/smb-fs IS my windows-fs. It may not be the standard setup, but I know I'm not the only one who uses samba this way (from previous comments when this issue arose the first time). Perhaps a simple: "allow client-managed-links (yes/no)" could disable this check? Would you accept a patch?
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