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2005 Feb 24
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Symlinks followed literally in Debian 3.0, not in Red Hat 7.3
After receiving requests to post answers to this query,
I figured I'd resubscribe to let people know that there is,
in fact, a way around this. When I upgraded johnboy to Linux
kernel version 2.6.10, all the formerly problematic symlinks
worked. Apparently, the 2.6.10 kernel fixed some issues in
the smbfs code relating to symlinks (thanks to Ted McManus for
pointing this out to me). So if you're running Linux clients,
my advice is to upgrade them to kernel...
2004 Jun 23
0
Symlinks followed literally in Debian 3.0, not in Red Hat 7.3
Hi all,
I've encountered a problem in using Samba 3.0.4. I've got a Red Hat 7.3
box (johnboy) running as a domain controller, and we've got symlinks to
a bunch of NFS mounts on a different machine (pawalton) to give people
the necessary file access using only one SMB mount. For example, the
SMB share is under /smbfiles in the root directory of the Samba server.
Within /smbfiles, ther...