My situation: I have several huge dirs which are on differnt devices in different partitions. So I created on dir lets say "bucket" where I put symlinks in, to the other dirs. The "bucket" dir is a shared in smb.conf The problem: When mounting "bucket" with smbmount I just see some broken symlinks. This doesn't happen when I browse the share with any Windows Version. Fyi: follow symlinks and widelinks are both set to true. The solution: I put 'max protocol = LANMAN2' in smb.conf So my guess: Either smbd is working correctly and smbmount isn't when using the NT1 protocol. This means that later Win versions could use the NT1 protocol and are doing fine with it (does WinXP use it?). Or smbd isn't working correctly and Win doesn't use the NT1 protocol at all, but smbmount does.
please note that (a) we don't actually maintain smbfs. (b) the cifs fs is probably a better test client in this case (c) it would be good to retest this using the cifs fs against Samba 3.0.11. Thanks. Please reopen if the bug still exists under conditions (c).
sorry for the same, cleaning up the database to prevent unecessary reopens of bugs.