Hi,
We are having a problem with our samba server. We are serving shares that
contain symbolic links to directories on filesystems that are nfs mounted 
to the server. In the past, these directories have been visible and 
accessible via samba services. This is no longer true.

As of a few days ago we noticed that when we try to access one of the 
files in these nfs mounted directories, the application trying to do the 
access hangs. For example, on the windows side, Explorer will hang if you 
try to open a file in one of these symlinked directories. If I run 
smbclient on a linux client, a similar thing happens. smbclient
gives the error
Error Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds 
closing remote file
(0.0 kb/s) (average 0.0 kb/s)
At this point you have to exit smbclient and start over.

This only happens on directories that are nfs mounted to the server.
Other symlinks are fine.

Has anyone else seen this?
I have done some googling and haven't found anything useful.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Eve

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Eve Kovacs
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