topic Re: Widelink implementation - pointing CIFS share to Windows Share in Network and Storage Protocols

Widelink implementation - pointing CIFS share to Windows Share

pdt7269 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:58:05 GMT

I have a CIFS share on my FAS2040 that I want to migrate to a Windows Server. on the NetApp side the path is /vol/CIFS_VOL_Test./share On the windows side the UNC is \\server\test. I have created the file /etc/symlink.translations file and placed the following entry in it:

widelink /vol/CIFS_VOL_Test/share/* \\server\test\*

I have widelink enabled on the volume containing the share. When I display CIFS Shares the cifs share in question displays the following:

... widelinks supported
... strict symlink security disabled

when I access the cifs share on the netapp is does not redirect. What steps, if any, am I missing?

Thank you for your assistance.

Re: Widelink implementation - pointing CIFS share to Windows Share

SeanHatfield — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:21:31 GMT

I suspect you are missing the symlink. The tranlations file tells the storage system how to tranlate the target path of a symlink into a path CIFS clients will understand. In the widelink use case, the translated mapping is to a UNC path, but the translation only occurs when the CIFS client hits a symlink.

Re: Widelink implementation - pointing CIFS share to Windows Share

pdt7269 — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 01:23:25 GMT

thank you for your assistance. How do I go about implementing symlinks?