I'm using SME8b6 with contrib smeserver-shared-folders installed. Last night I applied all the updates waiting to be installed. Didn't realize till this morning that the symlinks I created in one shared folder to another shared folder did not work anymore in windows but did work in linux. Verified through a root login that the symlinks did work from one shared folder to the other. Browsing in Windows to each of the shares works. Double clicking on the symlink in the share gives a windows message "f:\{symlink} is not accessable. Access is denied". Just to verify it wasn't an issue with smeserver-shared-folders, I created a symlink in my personal ibay to the public ibay. It failed the same when browsing to it in Windows.
After searching on samba follow symlink I found reference to the smb.conf file having "follow symlink = yes" to follow symlinks. I didn't see that in any sections of the smb.conf. I pulled the smb.conf file from a backup of 3 weeks ago and it didn't have any lines "follow symlink = yes" in it either. Temporarily I deleted the symlinks in the share and using windows setup shortcuts on the share with the same name. That works.
Any suggestions what might have happened?
These are the updates that were applied last night:
audit.i386 1.7.18-2.el5 base
audit-libs.i386 1.7.18-2.el5 base
bind-libs.i386 30:9.3.6-16.P1.el5 base
bind-utils.i386 30:9.3.6-16.P1.el5 base
centos-release.i386 10:5-6.el5.centos.1 base
centos-release-notes.i386 5.6-0 base
coreutils.i386 5.97-23.el5_6.4 updates
cups-libs.i386 1:1.3.7-26.el5_6.1 updates
curl.i386 7.15.5-9.el5_6.2 updates
dbus.i386 1.1.2-15.el5_6 updates
dbus-libs.i386 1.1.2-15.el5_6 updates
device-mapper.i386 1.02.55-2.el5 base
device-mapper-event.i386 1.02.55-2.el5 base
device-mapper-multipath.i386 0.4.7-42.el5_6.2 updates
dump.i386 0.4b41-5.el5 base
gettext.i386 0.17-1.el5 base
glibc.i686 2.5-58 base
glibc-common.i386 2.5-58 base
hal.i386 0.5.8.1-62.el5 base
httpd.i386 2.2.3-45.el5.centos base
hwdata.noarch 0.213.22-1.el5 base
kernel.i686 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 updates
kpartx.i386 0.4.7-42.el5_6.2 updates
krb5-libs.i386 1.6.1-55.el5_6.1 updates
kudzu.i386 1.2.57.1.26-1.el5.centos base
less.i386 436-7.el5 base
libgcc.i386 4.1.2-50.el5 base
libselinux.i386 1.33.4-5.7.el5 base
libselinux-utils.i386 1.33.4-5.7.el5 base
libsmbclient.i386 3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2 updates
libstdc++.i386 4.1.2-50.el5 base
libtalloc.i386 2.0.1-11.el5 base
libtdb.i386 1.2.1-5.el5 base
libtiff.i386 3.8.2-7.el5_6.7 updates
libvolume_id.i386 095-14.24.el5 base
lvm2.i386 2.02.74-5.el5_6.1 updates
m2crypto.i386 0.16-7.el5 updates
microcode_ctl.i386 1:1.17-1.52.el5 base
mkinitrd.i386 5.1.19.6-68.el5 base
mod_ssl.i386 1:2.2.3-45.el5.centos base
mysql.i386 5.0.77-4.el5_5.5 updates
mysql-server.i386 5.0.77-4.el5_5.5 updates
nash.i386 5.1.19.6-68.el5 base
openldap.i386 2.3.43-12.el5_6.7 updates
openldap-servers.i386 2.3.43-12.el5_6.7 updates
openssh.i386 4.3p2-72.el5 base
openssh-clients.i386 4.3p2-72.el5 base
openssh-server.i386 4.3p2-72.el5 base
passwd.i386 0.73-2 base
patch.i386 2.5.4-31.el5 base
pciutils.i386 3.1.7-3.el5 base
pcre.i386 6.6-6.el5_6.1 updates
popt.i386 1.10.2.3-22.el5 base
postgresql-libs.i386 8.1.23-1.el5_6.1 updates
psmisc.i386 22.2-7.el5_6.2 updates
python.i386 2.4.3-43.el5 base
python-urlgrabber.noarch 3.1.0-6.el5 base
quota.i386 1:3.13-4.el5 base
rmt.i386 0.4b41-5.el5 base
rpm.i386 4.4.2.3-22.el5 base
rpm-build.i386 4.4.2.3-22.el5 base
rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2.3-22.el5 base
rpm-python.i386 4.4.2.3-22.el5 base
samba3x.i386 3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1 updates
samba3x-client.i386 3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1 updates
samba3x-common.i386 3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1 updates
samba3x-winbind.i386 3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1 updates
screen.i386 4.0.3-3.el5 base
shadow-utils.i386 2:4.0.17-18.el5 base
sudo.i386 1.7.2p1-10.el5 base
system-config-securitylevel-tui.i386 1.6.29.1-6.el5 base
tdb-tools.i386 1.2.1-5.el5 base
tmpwatch.i386 2.9.7-1.1.el5.5 base
tzdata.i386 2011d-1.el5 updates
udev.i386 095-14.24.el5 base
util-linux.i386 2.13-0.56.el5 base
vim-common.i386 2:7.0.109-7.el5 base
vim-enhanced.i386 2:7.0.109-7.el5 base
vim-minimal.i386 2:7.0.109-7.el5 base
yum.noarch 3.2.22-33.el5.centos base
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