SMB Wide Symlinks disabled again in OSX 10.7 Lion
Hey Everyone. I'm hoping all you fellow Linux / Apple experts out there can help me to make an adjustment that I would assume is minor, but has a big impact in my home network. Sometime around the release of 10.6.5 Apple decided to turn off wide symlinks for SMB shares as it was a security threat. Well after digging around I found that you can manually change these settings by editing the /etc/smb.conf file. Worked great. I have a home network server off my Mac that everything from my Windows 7 PC machine to my android phone connects to to access the shares off my mac through SMB. Problem is all these shares are setup with symlinks.
When OSX 10.7 was released, I've read that Apple ditched the open source samba and has their own setup now for SMB and AFP. This is all fine and dandy, but once again wide symlinks is disabled (Folders / Files show as 0kb instead of an actual file / folder) and I can't access any of the folders/files off my SMB shares anymore as they are all setup as symlinks. This has been beyond annoying. I've checked the smb.conf file in both /etc and /var/db/ to make sure:
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no
wide symlinks = yes
to make sure wide symlinks work on my SMB shares as before with NO LUCK. My guess is with the new Apple made SMB setup they are storing the settings for wide symlinks in a different location. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN MAKE THIS SIMPLE ADJUSTMENT in OS X 10.7 Lion???
Thank you.
I was able to get symlinks working on a 10.7 system by editing the file located at /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist - locate the "ProgramArguments" array (notice that it's calling /usr/sbin/smbd), and add two strings: "--no-symlinks" and "false" - it should look like this:
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/sbin/smbd</string>
<string>--no-symlinks</string>
<string>false</string>
</array>
I found this command line option by performing the following terminal command:
/usr/sbin/smbd -help
After modifying this launchd plist, you will need to toggle filesharing off/on for this to take effect.
From what I found, it was not necessary to include any of the "wide links", "unix extensions", "wide symlinks", or "follow symlinks" options in any configuration files.
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