Controlling CIFS access to symbolic links

About Map entries

What Map entries are

Map entries are used to redirect absolute symbolic links on the filer. You create Map entries in the /etc/symlink.translations file. Map entries allow CIFS clients to follow absolute symbolic links to target destinations within the same share.

Requirements for Map entries

Map entries have the following requirements:

In order resolve an absolute symbolic link, there must be a Map entry in the /etc/symlink.translations file that determines the destination of the link.
The destination of the absolute symbolic link must be in the same share on the same filer as the absolute symbolic link.

Using Map entries

When you use Map entries to redirect absolute symbolic links, NT share security is preserved for both the symbolic link and the destination because they are in the same share. If you have both Map entries and Widelink entries in the symlink.translations file, the filer will use the first matching entry it finds.

For more information

For information about how to create Map entries to redirect absolute symbolic links, see Redirecting absolute symbolic links.