| Summary: | samba warning that wide links disabled because smb1 unix extensions enabled | ||
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| Product: | IPFire | Reporter: | Adolf Belka <adolf.belka> |
| Component: | --- | Assignee: | Adolf Belka <adolf.belka> |
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | Minor Usability | ||
| Priority: | - Unknown - | CC: | michael.tremer |
| Version: | 2 | ||
| Hardware: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Attachments: | smbd warning message | ||
Patch will be created that adds smb1 unix extensions = no to the smb.conf file. This has been confirmed to work on my vm testbed system with samba installed. This issue was flagged up in a forum post on another samba related issue. https://community.ipfire.org/t/samba-performance-4-18-1/10086 Patch has been created and tested and submitted to the dev mailing list and patchwork https://lists.ipfire.org/pipermail/development/2023-July/016191.html https://patchwork.ipfire.org/project/ipfire/patch/20230726210359.24473-1-adolf.belka@ipfire.org/ I am not sure if this is free from any side-effects if we change defaults for shares. However, the UNIX extensions have always been causing trouble, so let's turn them off and be safe. IPFire is not a fileserver. If people run into trouble, they might want to look at an alternative or (re-)enable this on a per-share basis. patch has been merged https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commit;h=cee7ddb66c22bfdd7a0dce18617f64b34d7794e7 Verified that message about wide links = yes clashing with smb1 unix extensions = yes is no longer seen. |
Created attachment 1226 [details] smbd warning message The attached warning message is shown if a share in samba has a wide link in place. wide links = yes is written into the smb.confg file by samba.cgi but smb1 unix extensions = yes by default which means that if there is a symlink in a samba share that points outside of the share directory tree then that symlink will never be shown. This occurred around 3 years ago when the samba wui page was simplified. The wide links = yes was added but the smb1 unix extensions (originally synonymous with unix extensions) was not specified meaning that the default value was used which is yes.