I have a network share that is accessed via Samba from Windows. In one of my network share folders, there is a symlink that points to the current directory. For example,
/opt/myapp/mydir
symlink mydir -> /opt/myapp/mydir
While the symlink is nonsensical, I am curious why in Windows Explorer, it seems to allow me to essentially navigate until I reach about 45 subdirectories and then there is nowhere to go but /opt/myapp/mydir
, only symlink mydir is nowhere to be found at about the 45th depth. In essence the path becomes something like \\nfs_server\share\myapp\mydir\mydir\mydir\..\mydir\mydir\mydir\mydir
etc. In /etc/smb.conf
, I have follow symlinks = yes
, wide links = ye
s, and unix extensions = no
.