Just a remark for those gotten bitten by this behavior, and want to
avoid similar occurrences in the future: The samba team doesn't read
distribution's bug trackers, but they do have their own list:
samba-techni...@lists.samba.org
The samba team lives under the impression that only a tiny
** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Won't Fix
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cannot follow symlinks on any samba share
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554928
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From the debian changelog:
* WARNING: This changes the default samba behaviour. For security
reasons, it is no longer possible to use wide links and UNIX
extensions at the same time. After applying this security update, wide
links will be disabled automatically as UNIX extensions
