Fixing the SMB Symlink problem with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Posted by Rodney.Campbell at November 19th, 2007
I have a number of samba shares on a Sun Solaris machine which we wish to access from a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Within these shares I often have a number of symbolic links in the unix filesystem pointing to various files and directories. In Tiger everything worked just fine. But in Leopard it tries to translate these links (aliases) to the local filesystem, which of course results in the links being dead.
The problem is that Leopard’s SMB/CIFS supports the Unix Extensions, which include support for server-side symbolic links.
I havn’t yet found a solution which could fix this at the client end however adding:
unix extensions = no
to the servers smb.conf file disables these unix extensions and returns the overall functionality back to how it was with Tiger.
Thank you for that little hint - I was wondering what went wrong with my symlinks!
You know what’s cool? Disabling all the cool authentication of your Samba shares. Leopard fails again!
Thanks, this proved very useful to me, too!
Sweet tip! Thanks.