Symlinks not seen by OSMC when using OpenMediaVault (Samba)

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Hi there,

When I connect my HDD with an NTFS format to my OMSC over an USB interface than there are no problems with symlinks that are on that drive. So I thought lets setup a Samba server with OpenMediaVault software. So be it. When I now connect that drive with the OMV software and open a filer window in OSMC than after logging in my Samba user account OSMC shows only the true file’s and ignores the symlinks. But when I open my Samba user account in Windows 10 than it shows both the real file’s and the symlinks. Who can/will point me in the good direction to solve the problem with OSMC and/or OMV. I’m still a learner in Unix so explain the commands that I need to use.

Thank for your help.

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There is a setting in the Samba server configuration that determines if symlinks will be followed.

You’ll need to change that in OMV.

I’ve never used OMV so I’m afraid I can’t tell you how.

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Hi yknivag,

Thanks for your reply.
But why shows the windows10 samba client both file types. I know that Windows can’t handle the symlinks because they are created under linux. But it shows the symlinks as file’s and in OSMC it shows only the real .m4v files.

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When I look in the OMV Samba file /etc/samba there is a file called smb.conf.
[New] is the directory where the files are stored.
When I open this file then I see the following contents:

#======================= Share Definitions =======================
[New]
path = /media/F4A897D1A89790AA/New/
guest ok = no
read only = no
browseable = yes
inherit acls = yes
inherit permissions = no
ea support = no
store dos attributes = no
printable = no
create mask = 0664
force create mode = 0664
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 0775
hide special files = yes
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 0775
hide special files = yes
follow symlinks = yes
hide dot files = yes

So the symlinks will be followed in OMV.

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As you have follow symlinks enabled then I think maybe this would be better raised on the OMV forum at http://forum.openmediavault.org

My guess is that there is probably a conflict between the version of Samba that OMV is running and the version OSMC is running.

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I contacted the OpenMediaVault forum to and they told me that ‘Symlinks across mount points are disabled in OMV because of security.’ So I replyed with ‘But why shows a Windows 10 Samba client the Symlinks in a filer window.’ I did not get an answer to that question yet. What other Samba client software would you recommend to use on a RaspberryPi in combination with OSMC.

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You don’t need any software to use Samba as a client in OSMC.

Regarding setting up a Samba server, you can run Samba server on virtually any linux based operating system, just make sure you use the latest stable version available.