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senel
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Mar 07, 2013

Mountain Lion/SMB/symlinks

Hi,

I have a little problem with symlinks on samba share...

I added

unix extension = no


to /etc/samba/smb.conf (global)

then added


wide links = Yes
follow symlinks = Yes


to /etc/frontview/Shares.conf,

restarted samba with

/etc/init.d/samba restart


and symlinks works corretly in Windows 8 but in Mountain Lion they doesnt...

Can anybody help me please?

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  • Windows shortcuts,
    Macintosh aliases,
    and Unix symbolic links,

    are all different. A Mac in the Finder, can follow both Aliases and Symbolic links but not Windows Shortcuts. Are you sure it is a Symbolic link? This would have to be created either on the Mac in Terminal.app, or on the ReadyNAS itself if you have enabled SSH access. A Windows client would not I believe be able to create a Symbolic link (unless it logs in the ReadyNAS via SSH).
  • Yep, its symlink. I modified samb.conf, restarted samba (as I wrote above) and them created symlinks via Mac over SSH.

    What I can't understand is that same symlinks works on Windows, Ubuntu and ElementaryOS but not on ML...

    On my old NAS (Streamed eTrayz) I had same HDD setup/folder setup and symlinks worked fine on all OS.



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  • senel wrote:
    Yep, its symlink. I modified samb.conf, restarted samba (as I wrote above) and them created symlinks via Mac over SSH.

    What I can't understand is that same symlinks works on Windows, Ubuntu and ElementaryOS but not on ML...

    On my old NAS (Streamed eTrayz) I had same HDD setup/folder setup and symlinks worked fine on all OS.

    I have created and used Symbolic links on my ReadyNAS via a Mac and they work fine but I have not tested them under Mountain Lion. I used the ln -s command. The difference in behavior might be down to 'hard' and 'soft' links (i.e. using or not using the -s flag).

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