<samba at lists.samba.org>Hi, I'm using windows 7 as client and a Samba 4.1.21 server. I would like to create symbolic link on a share with mklink, it failes with a reparse point error message. Trying to find more information i found this discussion https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-September/102388.html So it seems that i'm not the only one to trying to do that without success. Reading microsoft SMB documentation i found that this feature is optional and the server may or may not support it. Is it something that exists in newest version, or maybe it is in the roadmap, or will never be supported ? Best regards, Marc
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:26:53PM +0100, Marc JIROU wrote:> <samba at lists.samba.org>Hi, > > I'm using windows 7 as client and a Samba 4.1.21 server. > I would like to create symbolic link on a share with mklink, > it failes with a reparse point error message. > > Trying to find more information i found this discussion > https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-September/102388.html > > So it seems that i'm not the only one to trying to do that without success. > > Reading microsoft SMB documentation i found that this feature is optional > and the > server may or may not support it. > > Is it something that exists in newest version, or maybe it is in the > roadmap, or will > never be supported ?Doesn't exist yet. No one has really found a pressing need for it. It's not too difficult to support. If you have a pressing need for it you can always hire a Samba support company to implement it (or wait until one of the Team employers has a pressing need for it :-).
> I'm using windows 7 as client and a Samba 4.1.21 server.> > I would like to create symbolic link on a share with mklink, > > it failes with a reparse point error message. > > > > Trying to find more information i found this discussion > > > https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-September/102388.html > > > > So it seems that i'm not the only one to trying to do that without > success. > > > > Reading microsoft SMB documentation i found that this feature is optional > > and the > > server may or may not support it. > > > > Is it something that exists in newest version, or maybe it is in the > > roadmap, or will > > never be supported ? > > Doesn't exist yet. No one has really found a pressing > need for it. It's not too difficult to support. > > If you have a pressing need for it you can always > hire a Samba support company to implement it (or > wait until one of the Team employers has a pressing > need for it :-). >So no one is interesting in having symbolic link on a samba server ? When i was looking for informations, most of people think that symbolic link are reserved to NTFS and can't exists on a smb server, that why no one ask for. I'm pretty sure a lot of people are waiting for this ( at least people that use unix system ) but that's just my personnal opinion Regards