On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:29:18PM -0500, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: > I run SAMBA 3.6.15 on a Solaris 10 server that acts as a portal for my MS > Windows users into a large number of UNIX servers providing amongst other > things web-servers and ftp-servers. > > The SAMBA server has these varied resources all mounted as NFS mounts. > In each users home directory there are symbolic links that take the users > to their specific resource. > > /home/user/web-site -> /web-site > /home/user/ftp-site ->/ftp-site > > When a users logins into the Samba server their home directory is > mapped and for my MS-Windows users this works great. > > For my half-a-dozen Mac users the Symbolic links all fail and has never > really worked. I have forced them to use Cyber-duck as a work around for > the past several (dozen) years. I should also note that if they users > login on a Windows machine the system works fine, it just fails on Macs. > > I finally got some time to look under the covers at this issue and > discovered the problem is how the Mac (Mountain Lion) is resolving the > symbolic links. For the lack of a better description, the Windows clients > allow the server to resolve the symbolic link, so /home/user/web-site is > resolved as SAMBASERVER:/home/user/web-site, using wide links. The Mac on > the other hand defines the link to mean literally MACCLIENT:/web-site and > looks for /web-site on the client machine. > > After several days of searching the web, is there a fix for this issue? > Something I have probably over looked I am sure.
Just as a guess, turn off unix extensions ("unix extensions = no") in the [global] section of your smb.conf and then restart smbd. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba