RE: Problem in symbolic links - toasters

26 Jun 2000


      The cifs.symlinks.enable option just controls whether or not symlinks are
followed by CIFS client access. Pre-existing symlinks are fine. Typical problems
with CIFS and symlinks are
* By default the filer will not follow symbolic links which result in cyclic
directory structure. Since CIFS clients don't understand symlinks, we display
them as if they were the same object as the destination of the symlink. Programs
like "FastFind", which tries to index directories, wind up getting very confused
if you have symlinks that refer to directories above the current one. If it is
critical to follow such symlinks anyway, you can turn off the
cifs.symlinks.cycleguard option.
* Symlinks that leave the share are not permitted. That is because it would
violate the share-level permissions, or even allow access to portions of the
filesystem that were not intended to be shared. Also, symlinks that refer to
destinations off the filer are not supported. These types of symlinks however
will be supported in the near future using a secure method.
Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Kelly [mailto:derek.kelly@genomecorp.com]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 7:05 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Problem in symbolic links
Is it possible that the option only works with symlinks 
created *after*
the option is enabled?
Derek Kelly
Genomecorp
On 6/26/00 at 4:16 AM, abond@netapp.com wrote:
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The option name is actually cifs.symlinks.enable
You may also need to look at cifs.symlinks.cycleguard if
the symlinks
...
start with
.. or ..
Also you may need to create/modify /etc/symlink.translations if the
path
...
the
unix clients follow is not the same path the filer would have to
follow.
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See the manpages for options and symlink.translations for
more detail.
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Andrew
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-----Original Message-----
From: bhaskar.g@philips.com [mailto:bhaskar.g@philips.com]
Sent: 26 June 2000 12:03
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Problem in symbolic links
Hi,
We are facing problem in accessing the Doc files which are 
symbolic links on the Netapp box from a PC. 
Please can you let us know how to access that. We tried with 
the option
option cifs.symlink.enable on/off 
also but without success.
kind regards
Bhaskar G
Philips Semiconductors, 
#3, Sterling Square,Madras Bank Road,
Off St Mark's Road,BANGALORE-560 001.
Voice :  +91 80 222 9200   Ext 5060
Fax: +91 80 2229700
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