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Old May 8th, 2012, 13:09
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I'm having issues creating symbolic links on a mount_smbfs mounted filesystem on FreeBSD 9-RELEASE. Whether I try to create a symlink to a file/directory outside or inside of the share, I always receive
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ln: [file/directory name]: Operation not supported.
I've tried mounts from an Ubuntu and FreeBSD 8.2 server. I've also added the following configurations to both servers:
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     follow symlinks = yes
     wide links = yes
     unix extensions = no
Any suggestions?
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SMB/CIFS doesn't support symlinks. It's a file system feature. Meaning the underlying file system can support it and samba will follow them but you can't create them on an SMB/CIFS shared folder.
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