Symbolic links in Samba Share in 10.04

[tacman2k]

Hello,

I just upgraded to lucid.

On my mythtv-box, I previously had a samba share which had 4 symbolic links inside of the folder. They would be available to everyone on the network.

Since the upgrade, the links are still there and point to the right folders, but are not available over the network.

[lvleph]

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the following two lines to your [global] section

follow symlinks = yes
wide symlinks = yes

Then run

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

[tacman2k]

I get a command not found when I try to run /etc/init.d/samba.



I did notice there is a smbd service that I can start/stop, but this does not fix the issue.



Looking at the log:
/var/log/samba.log.smbd

Unknown parameter "wide symlinks"


I changed it to just "wide links" but that did not solve the problem.

[arsenic23]

I get a command not found when I try to run /etc/init.d/samba.

That's because it should have been init.d/smbd, BUT even that isn't correct anymore. You should be restarting services with the service command:

sudo service smbd restart

Do you still have your smb.conf file from your previous install? I normally just keep mine and overwrite the new default. That would be the easiest way to return your samba setup back to status quo.

[lvleph]

Just realized they changed one more thing in Lucid.
It is no longer

wide symlinks = yes

rather it is now

wide links = yes

Also, you will need one other item in the global section

unix extensions = no

[zukakog]

Yep, that did it. I just changed wide symlinks to wide links.

My smb.conf now reads:

[global]

follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no

and then ran:

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart

Thanks a bunch!

[Beelzebud]

Very helpful thread guys. Glad I found it. I had my symbolic links working, with shares, in a snap! Thankee

[sickanimations]

Perfect. I was playing with permissions for about 20 mins before I thought this could be the problem. Perhaps tag this as [SOLVED] ?

[TxRx]

Just like to thank everyone for keeping this updated, worth noting that if samba gets any update which 'replaces' your smb.conf with a default you'll have to re-apply the above.

[robbyf]

This worked for me, I googled this for like 2 hours, thanks for this post.