topic Re: how to configure symbolic links for cifs shares in Network and Storage Protocols

how to configure symbolic links for cifs shares

miguel_maldonado — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:44:50 GMT

Hello,

We have the following situation:

-1 vol named z_test

-2 qtrees_

/vol/z_test\zq_test

/vol/z_test\q_test

z_test

mixed enabled normal

z_test q_test mixed enabled normal

z_test zq_test mixed enabled normal

- Inside q_test I would like to create a symbolink link to zq_test, for example:

/vol/z_test/q_test/sym_link -> /vol/z_test/zq_test

So CIFS users can follow it and see its content:

[root@domtest zq_test]# ls

hola test

I have configured on the filer (8.2.1 7-Mode) the following:

cifs.symlinks.enable on

vol_z	/vol/z_test
	... strict symlink security disabled
	everyone / Full Control
zq_test	/vol/z_test/zq_test
	... strict symlink security disabled
	everyone / Full Control

filer> rdfile /etc/symlink.translations

Map /z_test/q_test/zq_test/* /vol/z_test/zq_test/*

Widelink /z_test/q_test/zq_test/* \\filer\zq_test\*

But I cannot access zq_test through the symbolic link inside q_test, there is nothing inside it.

Any thoughts?

Thank you and regards,

matthewrbailey — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:40:27 GMT

have you had any luck? i've been trying to test the same scenario on my filers, but with little success.

DEANALLENB — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:32:17 GMT

We have done similar to this, however we also have a CIFS share for /vol/z_test/q_test with the "widelinks" option enabled.

HrishikeshNaik — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 05:00:54 GMT

try this cifs shares -change -symlink_strict_security