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.

Note
CIFS client users who follow symlinks to resources outside the link's share do not work, unless the cifs share -nosymlink_strict_security option has been specified for the source 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 symbolic link destination must be in the same share as the link itself, or the link must be in a share for which the -nosymlink_strict_security option has been specified.

Using Map entries

When you use Map entries to redirect absolute symbolic links, Windows 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.