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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.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 31, 2011 11:01 PM

21 replies

Sep 12, 2011 12:04 PM in response to piii666

This is what I get:

username$ ls -la /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 644 Sep 9 15:47 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist

how do I try

sudo chown root /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist

sudo chmod +rw /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist

Put it in the terminal?

How do I use Nano via sudo

I am a novice....Thanks

piii666

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Sep 14, 2011 1:26 AM in response to Abou Jalloh

Permissions are quite ok. Just use nano by using the following command in Terminal:

sudo nano /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist

Then you will be asked to type your password and the nano editor will appear.

Alternatively you can issue the following command (as somebody has previously metioned) that will do the same thing automatically.

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbd.plist ProgramArguments -array-add -string "--no-symlinks" -string "false"

Sep 14, 2011 10:09 AM in response to piii666

I entered the code but was not able to connect:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>

<array>

<string>--no-symlinks</string>

<string>false</string>

</array>

piii666

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Sep 14, 2011 12:59 PM in response to Abou Jalloh

Can you please elaborate?

Was it possible to connect *before* you've edited the file?

Sep 15, 2011 7:40 AM in response to piii666

I started having this problem after in upgraded my MAC Book Pro to Lion. I was able to connect before that. When I go to finder and Go and and click to connect to the server, I get a login screen and I enter my credential and just spin forever.

piii666

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Sep 16, 2011 12:19 PM in response to Abou Jalloh

So, the problem you have is much different than dicussed here. Please try google, maybe you'll find more relevant thread. Good luck.

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SMB Wide Symlinks disabled again in OSX 10.7 Lion