On 5/4/23 13:57, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:> Is it possible for windows to actually see and use symlinks on samba > server? > Windows NTFS does have notion of junctions and symbolic links, so when one > open file A (which is a symbolic link), windows actually opens file B. > Can such mechanism be used when A is on samba share?currently not, but with the upcoming SMB3 UNIX Extensions this will be possible. It is currently being worked on by Volker. There's no ETA. -slow -- Ralph Boehme, Samba Team https://samba.org/ SerNet Samba Team Lead https://sernet.de/en/team-samba SAMBA+ Samba packages https://samba.plus/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 840 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20230504/02aa97e5/OpenPGP_signature.sig>
04.05.2023 15:32, Ralph Boehme ?????:> On 5/4/23 13:57, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote: >> Is it possible for windows to actually see and use symlinks on samba server? >> Windows NTFS does have notion of junctions and symbolic links, so when one >> open file A (which is a symbolic link), windows actually opens file B. >> Can such mechanism be used when A is on samba share? > > currently not, but with the upcoming SMB3 UNIX Extensions this will be possible. It is currently being worked on by Volker. There's no ETA.It is interesting. Windows to windows communication allows symlinks, client machine does see a symlink as a symlink. Does windows use SMB3 UNIX Extensions for this? Thanks! /mjt