[KLUG Members] samba and symbolic links

[John Pesce]

Thanks,

I have a rather annoying problem that I can't seem to find an answer to.

We have a rather large LAN with a lot of users that primarily use Linux,
but a lot also have dual boot to use Windows 2000 for the handful of
apps that can't run under Linux yet.

We use Samba to allow access to their home directory under Windows 2000
as the Z: drive. 
The problem is that Windows can't tell that symbolic links to
directories are any different then regular directories. So, when someone
wants to search for a file in their home directory under Windows,
Windows spins its wheel searching an endless virtual tree because their
are symbolic links like ~/.openoffice/work symbolicly linking back to ~
Virus checkers also have problems with this and never finish.

Is there a way around this? Like maybe telling samba to ignore symbolic
links.

Thanks,
John