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Hi, Using Samba 3.0.1 on SuSE Linux (follow symlinks on) we noticed the following behaviour: A symbolic link to a file gets overwritten (replaced) by the target-file contents if the symbolic link is saved from a windows client. This is not what we expected, because a link represents the file, and so all actions executed on the link should actually be executed on the target-file, not the link. I

Hi all,... ... currently I am trying to get hold of a strange error which is successfully keeping me from sleeping the last week. Basically, I am running a DebianGNU/Linux based machine with samba 3.0.0 as a backup server for an amount of Windows NT4 workstations. There is an old backup "framework" around here, basically a collection of .bat files on the workstations which at