On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:14:04PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:35:08AM -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I have a linux server that's exporting a samba share at a windows-dominant site. In a directory of the share, there's a symbolic link to a different (non-shared) partition. (We had to move a
Are you using Absolute links( ex /usr/share ) or Relative (ex ../../usr/share)? What apears as the link on the client? Does the link apear, or is it just a empty dir? Bill Mills-Curran wrote: directory due to space limitations.) Windows clients can mount the share and follow the symbolic link. My fedora-3 client can mount the share (smbmount), but cannot follow the link. I seem to remember that a RH 9 client would follow the link.
Any idea what's going on?
Not sure, but you can try CIFS instead of SMBFS:
mount -t cifs -o user=<user/workgroup> //server/share /mnt/point
Chuck,
I tried it. It mounted, but the symbolic link behavior was the same.
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Karl, On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:49:08PM -0400, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
Are you using Absolute links( ex /usr/share ) or Relative (ex ../../usr/share)?
I'm using absolute links, but I did try relative links. I may not have tried them in conjuction with other changes, such as the "wide links" samba option.
What apears as the link on the client? Does the link apear, or is it just a empty dir?
When I do "ls -l" I get a very UNIX-like display. It shows a symbolic link just like a local file system would show it, with the "->" notation. Here's an example: lrwxr-xr-x 1 bcurran bcurran 26 Sep 6 15:35 cookbook -> /expspace/ntdist/cookbook/ Note that the owner is not really bcurran -- that changed just like a typical samba mount. The thing that's interesting is that a windows box follows the link just fine, so I have to conclude that this is a client-side issue. I recently upgraded from RH9 to fc3, and that's when I noticed this new (can't follow a link) behavior. BTW, I am able to follow a link on the same directory, so I'm assuming that this is a "cross device" issue. Bill
Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:14:04PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:35:08AM -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I have a linux server that's exporting a samba share at a windows-dominant site. In a directory of the share, there's a symbolic link to a different (non-shared) partition. (We had to move a directory due to space limitations.) Windows clients can mount the share and follow the symbolic link. My fedora-3 client can mount the share (smbmount), but cannot follow the link. I seem to remember that a RH 9 client would follow the link.
Any idea what's going on?
Not sure, but you can try CIFS instead of SMBFS:
mount -t cifs -o user=<user/workgroup> //server/share /mnt/point
Chuck,
I tried it. It mounted, but the symbolic link behavior was the same.
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lrwxr-xr-x 1 bcurran bcurran 26 Sep 6 15:35 cookbook -> /expspace/ntdist/cookbook/ Here's a stab at an answer... That output shows that your client sees that file as a symlink. So when the client tries to access it, it knows it's a symlink and trys to follow it instead of the server following it for you. I bet you don't have a /expspace/ntdist/cookbook/ directory on your client? Try making one and see if it accesses that on the client. -Marc On 9/13/05, Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> wrote:
Karl,
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:49:08PM -0400, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
Are you using Absolute links( ex /usr/share ) or Relative (ex ../../usr/share)?
I'm using absolute links, but I did try relative links. I may not have tried them in conjuction with other changes, such as the "wide links" samba option.
What apears as the link on the client? Does the link apear, or is it just a empty dir?
When I do "ls -l" I get a very UNIX-like display. It shows a symbolic link just like a local file system would show it, with the "->" notation.
Here's an example:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bcurran bcurran 26 Sep 6 15:35 cookbook -> /expspace/ntdist/cookbook/
Note that the owner is not really bcurran -- that changed just like a typical samba mount.
The thing that's interesting is that a windows box follows the link just fine, so I have to conclude that this is a client-side issue. I recently upgraded from RH9 to fc3, and that's when I noticed this new (can't follow a link) behavior.
BTW, I am able to follow a link on the same directory, so I'm assuming that this is a "cross device" issue.
Bill
Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:14:04PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:35:08AM -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I have a linux server that's exporting a samba share at a windows-dominant site. In a directory of the share, there's a symbolic link to a different (non-shared) partition. (We had to move a directory due to space limitations.) Windows clients can mount the share and follow the symbolic link. My fedora-3 client can mount the share (smbmount), but cannot follow the link. I seem to remember that a RH 9 client would follow the link.
Any idea what's going on?
Not sure, but you can try CIFS instead of SMBFS:
mount -t cifs -o user=<user/workgroup> //server/share /mnt/point
Chuck,
I tried it. It mounted, but the symbolic link behavior was the same.
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