[Samba] samba and writing through hard/symbolic links

[Francis Vierboom]

hi everyone,

i feel like this problem should have come up a thousand times before but can't seem to find anything about on google. i am no expert and i don't know much samba lingo but i hope you understand me.

If you open a symlink (or hard link for that matter) in windows (2000) over samba, say a blah.doc file, which looks like

-rw-rw-r-- 1 francis galexia 2567 Feb 5 12:33 blah.doc > /somewhere/blah.doc

Then if you make changes to it in Word, and then save it, when you go back to the directory there will be

-rw-rw-r-- 1 francis galexia 2980 Feb 5 12:35 blah.doc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 francis galexia 2567 Feb 5 12:33 blah.doc.bak > /somewhere/blah.doc

ie samba has created a new *regular* file,
and relegated the old (and unaltered) link to a .bak file,
leaving the source file of the link unchanged.

Is there a way to make samba follow the link when you save things as well?

thanks in advance, francis



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Francis Vierboom
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Research Officer
Galexia Consulting Pty Ltd
Level 1, 3 Montague St
Balmain NSW 2041
Tel: +612 9555 5666
Fax: +612 9555 5688
http://www.consult.galexia.com

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