{"id":705,"date":"2010-05-06T13:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T18:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/75.134.27.61:8101\/wordpress\/?p=705"},"modified":"2012-08-14T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:26:32","slug":"softlink-symbolic-link-doesnt-work-on-samba-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/softlink-symbolic-link-doesnt-work-on-samba-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"Softlink \/ Symbolic Link doesn’t work on Samba – Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"

After upgrading my Samba servers (One is Ubuntu Linux, and the other one on Fedora Linux), I found that I can no longer access the symbolic links \/ soft links from Windows. It keeps returning “permission error”, “You don’t have permission to access this folder” etc. I am pretty sure that it has nothing to do with my user permission settings because it was working just fine before the upgrade. After trying several solutions, here is what I come up:<\/p>\n

Edit your samba configuration file:<\/p>\n

\r\nsudo nano \/etc\/samba\/smb.conf\r\n<\/pre>\n
Add the following into the global<\/strong> section, i.e.,<\/p>\n
\r\n[global]\r\n...\r\nfollow symlinks = yes\r\nwide links = yes\r\nunix extensions = no\r\n...\r\n<\/pre>\n
Save your file and restart Samba:<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo \/etc\/init.d\/samba restart\r\n<\/pre>\n
It should work now.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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