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(Let's keep this on the list) Aurélien Aptel via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> writes: > Chad William Seys <cwseys at physics.wisc.edu> writes: >> Somehow the destination having 'msdfsroot yes' prevents the cifs kernel >> module from following the link. I've taken a look at your traces and right off the bat I see things like this: [...]

...gs mixing directory separators, e.g.: Update attributes: //smb03.physics.wisc.edu/smb\instr_files inode 0xffff893c53c0e0a8 count 1 dentry: 0xffff893c596bbd80 d_time 0 jiffies 5742081270 What about making your symlink like this: ln -s 'msdfs:\\smb03.physics.wisc.edu\share\path' testback Note the use of simple quote and double _back_slash. I get unexpected result with zsh (\ gets interpreted..) but with bash it results in this: d55:/tmp/share # ls -l link* lrwxrwxrwx 1 aaptel users 28 Aug 30 16:51 link -> msdfs:\\10.160.65.191\target lrwxrwxrwx 1 aaptel users 32 Au...