I have a Virtual machine running Ubuntu server 14.04 and I've set up some smb shares.
Everything is working fine except for following symbolic links. The host is a Mac and I can see the symbolic link but I get permission denied if trying to access it.
I have added this to the global settings and the share itself, but it seems to make no difference:
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
This is the share:
[myshare]
comment = Myshare
browseable = yes
path = /home/myuser/Myshare
printable = no
guest ok = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 2777
writable = yes
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
The share itself I did a chmod 777, the symbolic link was 755, tried 777 as well but it seems to make no difference. I'm not really sure what I'm missing here. As a temporary workaround I just created another share to where the symbolic link points to but I'd rather just have the single share.