2008/10/28 Marc Fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We have a new server running Red Hat 5.2EL. > Windows machines can samba to the linux server with no problems, including > symbolic links to the www directory. > Our Mac OS 10.5.5 machines have a problem with symbolic links to the www > directory. > On the Mac computers, the symbolic links show up as an alias that cannot be > followed. > These same MAC computers can samba to the www directory via a symbolic link > on our Fedora Core 5 server.
The Mac is almost certainly using the unix extensions to follow the symlink on the client side. If you want the server to follow the symlink instead, you have to turn off unix extension support (unix extensions = no). > > Since the www symbolic link works on a PC that sambas to the Red Hat server, > is this strictly a problem on the macs or is there a setting I need to change > in a conf file on the Red Hat server, since the same Macs can use the > symbolic link to the www directory on the Fedora server? > > Thanks > > Marc > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- James Peach | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
