[gpfsug-discuss] SMB server on GPFS clients and Followsymlinks

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 22:32 +0000, Christof Schmitt wrote:
> > I could use CES, but CES does not support follow-symlinks outside
> respective SMB export.
>  
> Samba has the 'wide links' option, that we currently do not test and
> support as part of the mmsmb integration. You can always open a RFE
> and ask that we support this option in a future release.
>  

Note that if unix extensions are on then you also need the "allow
insecure wide links" option, which is a pretty good hint as to why one
should steer several parsecs wide of using symlinks on SMB exports.

JAB.

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