Re: With smb1 unix extensions gone, any way to export existing symlinks to Linux clients as symlinks?

Ralph Boehme via samba <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:46:09 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.network.samba.general
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On 4/27/26 10:34 AM, Dr. Thomas Orgis via samba wrote:
> Or is there some sane way to get read-only 'real' symlinks exported to
> clients with current samba?

this should just work. Existing symlinks on the server should be seen as 
symlinks by the client (via reparse points on the wire). It's the 
*creation* of symlinks that will roundtrip differently (by storing the 
symlink as file + EA on the server).

-slow

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