Symlink on samba share ubuntu 12.04 [closed]

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I have tried to create symlinks on samba shared documents. for example i have shared test folder on samba it is access to all , if someone trying to create symlinks it shows this Error Msg -The target does not support symlinks

am using samba , ubuntu 12.04Lts changed smb.conf follow symlink and wide links to yes and unix extension = no

Any other way to support symlinks on samba share...

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I have answered to related questions here and here. The main idea is that samba doesn't support symlinks.

This means that if your samba server is on Linux the symlink will be seen as a directory / file and there is no way to tell if that is a symlink by browsing the samba share.