Samba and symbolic links

I’ve been plagued with a problem at work for a few months. I run a [Samba](http://www.samba.org/)  server to provide file sharing, printing and authentication to a network consisting mostly of [Windows NT 4 Workstation](http://www.crap.com/)  machines. I say “mostly” because there are a few exceptions to that, in user-land (all of the servers are some flavour of Linux or BSD). There’s me on my [iBook](http://www.apple.com/)  and David, one of the company directors, on his insane monster of a [Fedora](http://fedora.redhat.com/)  machine.

David couldn’t access the Samba server. David’s kind of important, being a Director of the company and everything. Jurgen the IT guy couldn’t figure out what was going on. After weeks of tinkering with samba.conf, I stumbled across a post in Google groups that described exactly

what was going on. I was thrilled. Unfortunately, there was no answer to Christophe’s question.

In desperation, I emailed him. Christophe saved the day, because what he told me worked just fine. And this is what he told me:

That’s crazy, you are the 4th to ask me this question, I should take 2> > > minutes to answer myself on the ML :)> > > > > I found what was wrong, you have to add this line in your smb.conf :> > > > > unix extensions = no> > > > > and that’s ok.> > > > > Regards> > > —> > > Christophe Sahut

Merci bien, Christophe! I’m posting this here in case someone else has the same problem, this will show them how to fix it. Oh, by way of a plug, Christophe seems to work for a place called Lynuxsolutions located in Chêne-Bourg Switzerland, a suburb of Genève.