samba allowing follow symlinks

by | Jan 17, 2011 | *nix, Debian, Networking | 2 comments

Newest Samba from Debian Squeeze introduces a change on the way symlinks are handled/followed.
On previous Samba versions, you had to just define this in the [global] section of your smb.conf

unix extensions  = No
follow symlinks = Yes
wide links = Yes

Right now, this has been split up into the share sections so that you need to allow symlink following by share.

[global]
unix extensions  = No
[shareXY]
comment = share XY
path = /path/to/share/XY
follow symlinks = Yes
wide links = Yes

After a reload, everything’s fine again.

2 Comments

  1. Matze
    Matze on December 15, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    Thanks a lot. I didnt know, that i need to put the unix extensions under global!

    Reply
  2. marco
    marco on April 3, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    Perfect

    the part

    [global]
    unix extensions = No

    helped me a lot

    marco

    Reply

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