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Hello, about a year ago I ran into situation where there's a "metadirectory" containing directories and symlinks to files. There was a need to mirror the contents of files and directories gathered via symlinks to this metadirectory, regular mirroring of the tree wouldn't do any good. The attached patch gives the user ability to define how many symbolic links rsync should follow

Can Samba provide a central service for mapping or syncing username and password across different applications for example AD users accounts and Lotus Notes "ClientID's" ... (something just shy of a metadirectory service) I've used Samba in a past life do something simular and sound like Samba has matured significantly. any thoughts ... or am I hunting down the wrong hole -james