On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ken wrote: > Hi, is it currently possible to disable (ignore) symlinks, on the client > (using mount or mount.cifs or autofs), symlinks which are on a remote > untrusted CIFS/Samba server. Two cases: 1) the server such as Samba supports the Unix Extensions (which have native symlink support in the protocol). In this case the client will read symlinks (unless unix extensions are disabled e.g. "nounix" on the mount options). Note that the server can disable support for "wide links" in smb.conf (ie those which point outside of the server share). Adding a "no wide links" feature to cifs in order to prevent symlinks pointing to something outside of the share would be possible - is there a precedent in nfs or afs? 2) other types of servers: SFU (Windows "Services for Unix" style symlinks) will not be read by default (only if "sfu" mount option is specified). Currently (with mount option "sfu" specified) the code recognizes but does not follow SFU symlinks). -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
