On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:38:58PM +0100, Stefan Götz wrote: > Hi! > > How can I let recent smbd versions let unix clients access and resolve 'wide' > symlinks locally? My goal is that clients may use any kind of symlink > (internal > and external to a mounted share) like on any other unix-style file system > without smbd interfering. > > My understanding is that since version 3.4.6, smbd effectively denies access > of > clients to 'wide' symlinks, i.e. out of the share, when unix extensions are > on. > That is at least the behavior I observe on my unix clients. However, the old > wide link behavior is desirable in my environment. > > Setting the 'wide links' option to yes and/or the 'follow symlinks' to no on > the > server has no effect, neither globally nor on a per-share basis. Is there any > other way to tell smbd to not meddle with symlinks?
Remove the check in lp_widelinks() (param/loadparm.c) and recompile. We got bitten badly enough by this that I don't think this should be a user settable parameter I'm afraid. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
