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How to enable symlink following in Samba
By admin | March 30, 2010
After a recent samba update, it appears that the Samba team has decided to set their default for the “unix extensions” to yes after an update. Unfortunately, even though this means that Unix clients will now be able to create symlinks on smbfs-mounted file system, it still means that some Unix clients who wish to access where the symlink leads instead of the symlink itself. This also includes Windows clients, who have no idea of what a symlink is, and as a result error out with a “Access is denied” message. In order to access where the symlink resides one must disable “unix extensions” in smb.conf.
Open up a text editor:
sudo nano -w /etc/samba/smb.conf
and add the line:
unix extensions = no
right after the [general] section. Save by pressing Ctrl-O and then restart samba:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
Symlink following should now work properly.
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Topics: Linux | 27 Comments »
April 8th, 2010 at 03:28
It worked like a charm. Thanks!
July 25th, 2011 at 12:03
Thank you! just what I needed.
March 27th, 2012 at 04:45
In my experience you have to add 3 lines 🙂
unix extensions = no
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
to [global] section of smb.conf
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