Default Samba Behavior Change - Fix 1

Posted by JD 03/27/2010 at 06:56

The behavior of Samba network shares changed with a recent patch. There was a security issue where unix extensions and softlinks created undefined behavior. I use softlinks, perhaps more than I should, for convenience.

Anyway, after I completely my normal weekly system patching today, I noticed that my samba shares weren’t working below a softlink from my HOME directory. I keep most things down this link since it points to the external RAID5 array, huge and fast. Fortunately, the security announcement included the settings to make it work again.

Just add

unix extensions = no

to the [Global] section of your smb.conf file.

Worked for me.

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