[PATCH] symlink-hack for smbfs under linux

From: Alexander Oelzant (aoe@mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 17:36:01 EDT

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    I've programmed a quick-and-dirty version of symlinks for smbfs. This
    hack uses the system attribute and otherwise works much like the
    ncpfs-hack, that is to say, I write the magic cookie at the beginning of
    the file.

    Of course the server has to map the system attribute, which samba notably
    doesn't do by default. smb.conf entries of "map system = yes" and "create
    mask = 750" (or higher) are therefore necessary.

    Currently I also write a NUL-byte at the end of the symlink; from the other
    implementations I assume this would not be necessary, but for the moment
    I'm glad I got rid of the oopses (memcpy vs memcpy_fromfs in smb_proc_write
    gave me a real pain in 2.0.33 and yes, everything else does need the
    memcpy_fromfs so I had to create a similar smb_proc_write_mem and make it
    use memcpy. I still don't get it) and happy to forget everything about it at
    least until after easter.

    As the patch is rather large (> 10k), I'd rather not include it here;
    versions for 2.0.33 and 2.3.99 are available at

    http://prawda.oeh.net/~aoe/mystuff/smb.symlinks.2.0.33.v0.2.patch
    http://prawda.oeh.net/~aoe/mystuff/smb.symlinks.2.3.99.v0.2.patch
    or
    http://mars.tuwien.ac.at/~aoe/smb.symlinks.2.0.33.v0.2.patch
    http://mars.tuwien.ac.at/~aoe/smb.symlinks.2.3.99.v0.2.patch

       Alexander 

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A-1200 Wien			aoe@mars.tuwien.ac.at

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