symbolic link

[bubull51]

Hello to all
I have trouble with symbolic link.
I use nas4free 9.1.0.1 - Sandstorm (revision 573) with FreeBSD 9.1-release (release date 901000)

I created 3 folders
user1 (user1 personnal folder)
user2 (user2 personnal folder)
public (common folder for all users)

I created 3 groups
group user1
group user2
group public

ls -l give this :
Code:

drwxrwx--- 2 user1 user1 3 Feb 13 11:12 user1
drwxrwx--- 3 user2 user2 4 Feb 13 11:21 user2
drwxrwxrwx 5 root public 5 Feb 14 09:23 public

id user1 give this:
Code:

uid=1000(user1) gid=1002(user1) groups=1002(user1),1004(public)

id user2 give this:
Code:

uid=1001(user2) gid=1003(user2) groups=1003(user2),1004(public)

I created a symbolic link using ln -s, in each personal folder.

using Windows 7, \\server_ip I see the symbolic link in personal folder, but when I double click on it I got this message:
Code:

windows can't access \\server_ip\user1\public

I can access public folder from Windows 7, when I double click directly on it.

thanks for your help

[Onichan]

The first question is what logon are you using when you go to \\server_ip\
If you are using the public logon then that would be why you can't access the users folder.
Also why are you creating symbolic links? Why not create 3 different datasets, user1 user2 and public and assign the appropriate rights to each dataset. Then share out those datasets with cifs and inherit permissions. Then depending on what account you use to connect then they should only have access to their folder and the public one.