I've got a problem running samba (3.0.2a) on slackware 9.1:
Samba does not follow any symbolic links although I've added "follow symlinks = yes" to smb.conf and as of the documentation this setting is
default anyway.
smbd starts without any errors.

Any suggestions?

On 2004-08-11, Torsten Stauder <audio07@t-online.de> wrote:
> I've got a problem running samba (3.0.2a) on slackware 9.1:
> Samba does not follow any symbolic links although I've added "follow symlinks = yes" to smb.conf and as of the documentation this setting is
> default anyway.
> smbd starts without any errors.
>
> Any suggestions?

Check out the "wide links" parameter in smb.conf (man smb.conf). Use
'testparm -v' to see all your options laid out. Becareful about
symlinks. The man page warns of reasonably possible symlink-attack
scenerio.

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>>I've got a problem running samba (3.0.2a) on slackware 9.1:
>>Samba does not follow any symbolic links although I've added "follow symlinks = yes" to smb.conf and as of the documentation this setting is
>>default anyway.
>>smbd starts without any errors.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>
>
> Check out the "wide links" parameter in smb.conf (man smb.conf). Use
> 'testparm -v' to see all your options laid out. Becareful about
> symlinks. The man page warns of reasonably possible symlink-attack
> scenerio.
>
wide links = Yes
follow symlinks = Yes

I know it's (potentially) a security hole. But believe me - my mother won't attack my server and it's firewall-secured to outside.

So any further suggestions?