Re: State of unix extensions and symlink support

Re: State of unix extensions and symlink support

[Steve French]

To clarify, are you asking about symlinks that appear as symlinks both
to the client and the server?

There are many cases where emulated symlinks (that appear as symlinks
to the client, but expose no security risk on the server as they are
emulated) - "mfysmlinks" (also what the Mac client uses) are preferred
to enable.   The Linux client has this mount option so that symlinks
can be emulated without requiring the server to support reparse points
(see Paulo's recent patches for example) which are common for Windows
for symlinks or without requiring the SMB3.1.1 Unix Extensions.

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 10:17 AM LuKaRo via samba-technical
<samba-technical@lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> is it possible to create symbolic links using the Linux cifs client
> within a Samba share on a Linux server? Or is that entirely not possible
> at the moment? I have read that smb3 unix extensions are part of Samba
> 4.18, but only when compiling in developer mode?
>
> Thanks for anyone who can shed some light in this regard,
>
> Lukaro
>
>


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Thanks,

Steve