Package: samba Version: 2:4.6.5+dfsg-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
setting the option follow symlinks = Yes does not allow to follow symlinks. My (simplified) setup to reconstruct the faulty behavior is as follows. $ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = WG netbios name = Sauron follow symlinks = Yes ;wide links = Yes ;allow insecure wide links = Yes [share] path = /tmp $ cd /tmp $ mkdir mydir $ touch mydir/myfile.txt $ ln -s mydir mydirlink Then clicking on mydirlink in Windows Explorer shows an error message instead of listing its content. After enabling the two commented out lines in smb.conf (and restartiing samba) eliminates the problem. However, this is insecure and should not be necessary. Many thanks, Chris -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages samba depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2+b2 ii libbsd0 0.8.5-1 ii libc6 2.24-12 ii libldb1 2:1.1.29-2 ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.6 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.6 ii libpopt0 1.16-10+b2 ii libpython2.7 2.7.13-2 ii libtalloc2 2.1.9-2 ii libtdb1 1.3.13-2 ii libtevent0 0.9.31-1 ii libwbclient0 2:4.6.5+dfsg-2 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 ii python 2.7.13-2 ii python-dnspython 1.15.0-1 ii python-samba 2:4.6.5+dfsg-2 ii python2.7 2.7.13-2 ii samba-common 2:4.6.5+dfsg-2 ii samba-common-bin 2:4.6.5+dfsg-2 ii samba-libs 2:4.6.5+dfsg-2 ii tdb-tools 1.3.13-2 ii update-inetd 4.44 Versions of packages samba recommends: ii attr 1:2.4.47-2+b2 ii logrotate 3.11.0-0.1 ii samba-dsdb-modules 2:4.6.5+dfsg-2 ii samba-vfs-modules 2:4.6.5+dfsg-2 Versions of packages samba suggests: ii bind9 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3 ii bind9utils 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3 pn ctdb <none> pn ldb-tools <none> pn ntp | chrony <none> pn smbldap-tools <none> pn ufw <none> pn winbind <none> -- no debconf information
