Samba – disable unix extensions per share in samba

...and ... is the linux CIFS driver an SMB2 client?

I have encountered a similar problem:

A SAMBA share setup up on a linux server contains symlinks. I have set "follow symlinks = yes" in my server's smb.conf.

My Windows XP clients can correctly follow the symlink (it points to a directory), but when I mount that SAMBA share to my linux laptop using CIFS, my linux client sees that symlink as a file.

Someone reported this as a bug to the Ubuntu forums as well:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/137756

but the report has been closed with no action.

My linux client is running kernel 2.6.33, and appears to have mount.cifs version 1.52 or better (according to the MAN page).

It's unclear to me though whether mount -t cifs actually utilises the underlying samba machinery, or whether it's a separate implementation...

According to the manpage, mount.cifs ignores the smb.conf file on the client.

From http://blog.realcomputerguy.com/2010/12/samba-and-guest-shares-with-security.html?spref=tw

In a nutshell you need:

• A username map file.
• A valid 'nix "guest" user mapped to the Windows guest account ("nobody" in most distros).
• Proper smb.conf configuration.

In this example our username map file is /etc/samba/smbusers. It maps a 'nix user to a Windows user.

In /etc/samba/smbusers (many distros include this file, but with the default commented out):

nobody = guest

In /etc/samba/smb.conf:

[global]
   ...
   security = user
   Map to guest = Bad User
   username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
   ...
-- no 'valid users =' line --

[theshare]
   ...
   guest ok = yes
-- no 'valid users =' line --