Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 14 Apr 2002 12:35:50 +0200 (CEST) | From | Urban Widmark <> | Subject | Re: symlink support for sambafs. |
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, K Shyam wrote:
> Hello; > Does linux kernel have symlink support for sambfs ? I tried doing a > search on the internet and i obtained a site that gives patches till > version 2.4.0.The address is : > http://131.130.199.155/~aoe/mystuff/smb.symlinks/ > Do the latest versions of the kernel have support for symlinks in smbfs ?
No.
> I would like to know whether anyone has experiemented with it before i > jump into putting my own effort into porting the code that is already present > to the current kernel. > Finally is symlinks in sambafs a security hazard and hence it is not > implemented ?
No, that's not why.
This patch uses its own format to store symlinks in. I know cygwin also stores symlinks in a special format, and it would be nice if it could use the same (if possible). It may have been something else I didn't like about the patch too.
Now there is also a potential conflict with the work being done on the unix extensions to SMB which allows a samba server to better serve files to a unix client. This includes symlinks.
/Urban
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