We recently compiled and installed Samba 3.5.5 on both AIX and Solaris and now seem to find that setting "wide links = yes" does not seem to work. For example we have a test samba share: [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp writable = yes public = yes wide links = yes follow symlinks = yes However on accessing a linked file (for example the file /tmp/chris.txt) below we are unable to open it from a PC with the error "Access in Denied": # ls -l /tmp/chris.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 18 Oct 25 20:50 /tmp/chris.txt -> /var/tmp/chris.txt # ls -l /var/tmp/chris.txt -rwxr--r-- 1 ch83287 engsa 10 May 14 10:03 /var/tmp/chris.txt Note that if we switch back to the previous release we were using (3.2.15) then with an identical configuration this works. Many thanks for your help Chris Howarth
With a recent security release the "wide links" parameter conflicts with the "unix extensions" parameter. Please set "unix extensions = no". If it still does not work, please re-open this bug. Volker