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No symlinks allowed in smb share
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Mar 15, 20265015 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have the following share setup on my Ubuntu machine However when I try to create a symlink in the mounted directory I get the following error. I've tried this from my Mac which is also communicating over the same protocol and the creation of syms is allowed? Does anyone know what's prevent me fro…
Error Output
# From /etc/fstab //192.168.1.13/media /home/USER/SHARE/media cifs username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD,_netdev,uid=USER,gid=users 0 0
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According to mount.cifs(8), you need ver. >=1.40 of the kernel module in order for this to work: When the CIFS Unix Extensions are not negotiated, attempt to create device files and fifos in a format compatible with Services for Unix (SFU). In addit…
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