thank you, kurt hello list hello samba-team well, maybe for most application this workaround would work. But from the unix-point of view replacing a symbolic link with a windows-link is like replacing a car with a donkey... Why should someone create a symlink on a sambaserver which let's say is used by windowsclients only, if one just could have created a windows-link even more easily. It's the total difference between both. With a unix-link, you don't have to worry whether your application is able to follow windows-links the way you expect it, it simply works, and you don't need to maintain additional shares, it's accessrights etc - ok, but this is not the point [this indeed could be extended to a debate on principles ;-) ] The point is, that sometimes you just effectively need directories and no links, but there is no way to copy stuff - as it is in our case: the samba-server is a former nfs-server and the application running on windows formerly used to run on IRIX and now was ported to windows using hummingbird (btw.: the app. now beats the expensive SGIs in speed immensively), which means that in fact it still is a unix-application which has no idea of how to treat windows-links.
So: Is there not a way, to teach samba (maybe in a future-release) to first check on recieving a deletion request whether or not a directory possibly is a link and delete the link only? One could introduce an per-share-option which allows to switch on this feature. I doubt this could be that hard to realize, is it? greetings Antonio Nikolic ________________________________________________________________________ Kurt, Tuesday, February 04, 2003, 1:40:09 PM: >>============================================== > Antonio Nikolic wrote: >> hello list, >> >> is it possible to delete a symlinked directory over a samba-share, without deleting >> it's content but leaving the link-target as it is and deleting the >> symlink only? If I interpret samba's behaviour correctly, on deletion samba does not >> recognize the link as a link but as a directory, descends into it and deletes the > the problem is, that the client does not recognize, that this is only a > link: > the files in there will be deleted *first*. then it deletes the link... > but u can try a workaround (e.g.): > u have a directory "all" and a share "home". u want to point from all > homes to "all": > create a share "all" in samba. - then create a link in *windows* to > \\<server>\all > this link u copy to all "home" shares. - the client can change to "all", > but if he deletes the link - nothing will happen... > disadvantage: he only comes back with the "back" button in his browser, > not with the "up" button. > i hope it helped > gk >> content recursively, finally tries to delete the directory which is none >> and stops. So all what is left in the end, is an empty directory and a >> link pointing to it... >> >> Setting the userpermissions is no solution for us as users have >> to have full access to the content. We are using samba 2.2.7a on IRIX. >> >> The symlinked directories are used as libraries, which are being linked >> to from different project-directories. If a project is finished, the >> link to the libraries must be deleted by the users. >> >> any hint would be helpful, >> thx >> >> Antonio Nikolic >> >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> >> eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Internet: http://www.ibk-consult.com >> >> IBK Ingenieurconsult für Maschinenbau GmbH >> Kornstr. 17-21 >> 30167 Hannover >> >>============================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba