Samba no longer follows symbolic links

[oddentity]

So, does this mean that the only way to get symbolic links working in samba shares accessed by Windows clients is to create a security hole?

[nexist]

Thank you for posting the solution. Life is good now.

[PeterK2003]

After updating to 10.04 it broke my symlinks. I have already added the 3 setting mentioned before. Any suggestions?

[PeterK2003]

and 3 sec after i post i figure it out!

Thanks anyways.

[neutron68]

never mind.

[Sciamano]

and 3 sec after i post i figure it out!

Thanks anyways.

How did you solve? I've been fighting with this for a week without any success!!

[pricetech]

and 3 sec after i post i figure it out!

Thanks anyways.

Please post your solution to help others.

[pricetech]

OK, here's what worked for me. From an article at:
http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=1590
I ran smbpasswd and mine started working.

I had already installed via Synaptic and had configured using the gui tool.

Worked for me.

[Alain Knaff]

How did you solve? I've been fighting with this for a week without any success!!

Simply add "unix extensions = no" into the [global] section of smb.conf

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 and forums, but they do have their own list:

samba-technical@lists.samba.org

The samba team lives under the impression that only a tiny minority of people are affected by this bug, and they can only be convinced otherwise if more people make their voices heard. So if you care, drop a note to samba-technical@lists.samba.org

Thanks,

Alain

[zdude]

I ended up using these three options in the global sections:

follow symlinks = yes
wide links - yes
unix extensions = no


This was the only way that I could follow sym links in Lucid that previously worked in 8.04.