Strange samba/symlink problem

[whitecrook]

Setup:

freenas 192.168.1.250 sharing via samba \\192.168.1.250\data1
debian 192.168.1.119 mounting freenas at /mnt/data1
debian sharing via samba [homes] share followsymlinks yes, widelinks yes
ln -s /mnt/data1/Video /home/whitecrook/popcorn

and laptop 192.168.1.124 winxp mounted /home/whitecrook on Y:\

Problem is I get 'access denied' when trying to access y:\popcorn

I can access as whitecrook from terminal i.e. symlink works. permissions are 777 everywhere.

But can't access the symlink 'popcorn' which points to my video folder on my freenas box via windows. hich s a pain as I need to run yamj pointing at this directory. (as /home/whitecrook/popcorn is where the web server points)

Now there are various ways around this in terms of popcorn/yamj etc, but my query is on the symlink issue? Any ideas? Things I could try?

ls -lh /home/whitecrook | grep popcorn
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   17 2010-04-07 23:50 popcorn -> /mnt/data1/Video/
drwxrwxrwx  4 whitecrook whitecrook  16K 2010-03-31 22:48 popcorn_old

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = yes
   follow symlinks = yes
   read only = No
   create mask = 0700
   directory mask = 0700
   wide links = Yes

ls -lh /mnt | grep data1
drwxrwxrwx 11 whitecrook whitecrook    0 2010-04-07 23:09 data1

 

[tntcoder]

Just a guess, but Windows might not be liking the root owned symlink (not sure how windows uses 777 permissions?), I mean you are definitely having a permissions problem and it looks like a sensible place to start.

I would suggest as a starting point using 'smbpasswd -a' to add a samba user, and try using those credentials on the windows box.

Also check the samba log files for anything of relevance.

Tricky one to narrow down

EDIT: Also a hunch, add: "unix extensions = no" to your global area of the samba config. Google suggests it may help with symlink issues.