[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#612764: I see the point they are looking for, the solution seems too limiting

[Santiago Garcia Mantinan]

Thanks for your replies, I've been reading the threads on this and I see the
point they had, but the solution... I don't agree with that.

On my case I have a powerpc tree exported via cifs to a powerpc thin client,
the tree is a normal Debian powerpc full tree, and as such it has a lot of
links to /etc, /usr and so on. With this constraints I cannot continue to do
this and doesn't resolve the problem, farther more, they hide it, a note on
the config file would have been more efective.

For what I see my options here are:

1-convert all absolute paths to relative
2-use something like squashfs and export the file containing the filesystem
via cifs.

I don't see any other options here and the constraints they have put still
would allow wide links when unix extensions are off, thus if unwanted links
are set on the real filesystems they will still be followed by samba.

I really don't get what they did here I suppose I'm still missing something :-(
They should have at least allowed the wide links on read only shares or even
better, choose a better solution.

Regards...
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