samba - Feb 2014 - allow insecure wide links

Does the 'allow insecure wide links' parameter work in the Samba in RHEL
6.5 (which is 3.6.9-167.el6_5)?

I need 'unix extensions' to be yes and also follow wide links.  So I set
'allow insecure wide links' but it doesn't seem to work.

By the way (and this may be a known issue that's been resolved in later
releases) after we upgraded our Macs to 10.9 (which rolled out the SMB2 client)
we started to get file corruption using matlab on the Macs sharing from RHEL
6.5/ext4.  We found that this was caused by 'unix extensions = no'.

Hays, Arthur (NIH/NEI) [E] wrote:
> Does the 'allow insecure wide links' parameter work in the Samba in
RHEL 6.5 (which is 3.6.9-167.el6_5)?
>   
Were you aware that the "wide links" parameter was changed into a
"per
Share", vs. being a Global in the past?

Otherwise, I if you don't get an error message when you run
'testparm',
it should mean it is working.

If you are on the paranoid side and actually believe wide links are
somehow insecure (since no matter where a user could point them, they
don't give access to files they wouldn't have access to while logged in
to the server), or even if you aren't that paranoid, you could check the
source and make sure your distro hasn't changed things...   have had
that happen a few times with other things in opensuse in the past
several years...