[SOLVED] Help with symbolic links

cmfarley19 · 08-25-2010, 09:30 AM

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. I have two 40gb drives.
Drive 1, /dev/sda2 has / (root) mounted on it. Drive 2, has just a generic /data partition it. I use drive 2 to store my music (really my media)library "/data/Music". I added a bunch of audio books last week and have become dangerously low on space (<500MB).
Drive 1 has gobs of space on it. So I got the idea of creating a directory on drive 1, "/More Music" and move the audio books there and create symlinks to them. So where I once had

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/data/Music/Audiobooks/...

I would now have

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/data/Music/Audiobooks -> /More Music/Audiobooks/

As root, I created the symlink in the following manner:

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ln -s /More\ Music/Audiobooks/ /data/Music/Audiobooks

And ls -l /data/Music/|grep -i audiobooks yields the following:

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lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root       23 2010-08-25 09:45 Audiobooks -> /More Music/Audiobooks/

As a regular user I can navigate to /data/Music/Audiobooks and view the contents and all seems well.
The problem I am having is /data is being served as a windows share via samba. I can get to anything on /data just fine from my windows pcs, except for /data/Music/Audiobooks. When I try to access it from iTunes (or any other program) I get "Z:\Music\Audiobooks is not accessable. Access is denied."
Is this a permissions thing or something wrong in the way I created the symlink?

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lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root       23 2010-08-25 09:45 /data/Music/Audiobooks -> /More Music/Audiobooks/
drwxrwxrwx   3 root root 4.0K 2010-08-25 09:43 /More Music
drwxrwxrwx 3 cmfarley cmfarley 4.0K 2010-08-14 14:42 /More Music/Audiobooks

Any suggestions?

David the H. · 08-25-2010, 09:55 AM

I'd guess it has something to do with your samba configuration, not that I'm an expert or anything though.

A quick Google search popped up this Ubuntu forum thread discussing a similar, but kind of reversed, problem, and the configuration that solved it. Maybe it will lead you to the correct fix.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=352016

Edit: More here. Yep, it looks like disabling the unix extensions is what you need.

http://www.compdigitec.com/labs/2010...wing-in-samba/

cmfarley19 · 08-25-2010, 10:30 AM

Thanks David. That did the trick.