Control: tag -1 + confirmed upstream Control: found -1 2:4.16.6+dfsg-6
Hi! So, it looks like samba does not work with symbolic links anymore, even after the VFS layer rewrite. When there's a symlink within a share which has a directory component, it is being ignored by samba completely, if it were listed in veto files. It is interesting that with 4.16, a symlink pointing to the same directory but leaving it in the path, actually works: touch dest.txt -- this is the target ln -s dest.txt a.txt ln -s ./dest.txt b.txt ln -s ../thisdir/dest.txt c.txt even the c.txt works, despite the fact that it leaves the directory in question! But any symlink which points to another (sub)directory is just ignored: ln -s subdir/file file ln -s .. parentdir and so on. While the latter, with parentdir one, is obviously right, the former is, in my opinion, entirely wrong and should be allowed. And this is what this bugreport is about. /mjt
