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Hai, I use the following on one of my member servers. Put set these three in your global smb.conf. enable privileges = Yes unix extensions = No allow insecure wide links = Yes And on the share i have set. wide links = yes follow symlinks = yes and this is working for years for me. Try these and report back. If its not working tell us you OS and samba version Greetz, Louis

...r directory traversal outside of what I want samba sharing.   So have you consider a bind mount ? if you have some file system mounted at /mnt/somefilesystem   and in somfilesystem you have /somefolder/subfolder   you can do a mount --bind /mnt/somefilesystem/somefolder/subfolder /home/magicbind   and get all the benefits of having magicbind point to some other subfolder like a symlink but without security issues of a wide link traversal.    I'm new to bind mounts so I don't know what security risks are associated with them, but they seem like a better alternative than allo...