On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:16 , James Knott wrote:
This is not broken. Read our samba.org announcement. The one I quoted. Read it, read it twice.
I can understand blocking links to another computer, but what's the difference between linking to a directory on another partition on the same computer vs to the same directory in the same partition? If I had created one huge / partition and not separate /home and /srv, we wouldn't be having this discussion. And why is this only a concern with Samba and not other methods?
From the announcement: because you can create symlinks pointing anywhere, and Windows clients will resolve these on the server, thereby escaping the limits set by the share. What "other methods" do you refer to? With NFS, for example, symlinks will be resolved on the client, so this cannot be used to escape the export tree.
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