are symlinks a known problem for SMB shares?

[guermantes]

EDIT EPILOGUE:
What's better than a lazy Sunday to tinker at the command promt? A lazy, rainy Sunday! I'll somewhat answer my own question: it turns out my hunch to go with NFS was a perfect solution, symlinks copy without hassle. I also happened upon some posts discussing Samba breaking symlink behaviour in a version 3 or 4 update. It could apparently be fixed with a special flag, but I never got around to try that since NFS works perfectly.

(I am trying to find out what my problem is so bear with me if I am barking up the wrong tree.)

On my local desktop (Linux Mint) I have a directory tree with some symbolic links, like so:

Code:

peter@mint19:~/testing-npm/no-slugs/node_modules/.bin$ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   2 peter peter  4096 Dec  1 21:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 344 peter peter 12288 Dec  1 21:53 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	19 Dec  1 21:53 atob -> ../atob/bin/atob.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	27 Dec  1 21:53 browser-sync -> ../browser-sync/dist/bin.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	24 Dec  1 21:53 cake -> ../coffeescript/bin/cake
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	26 Dec  1 21:53 coffee -> ../coffeescript/bin/coffee
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	24 Dec  1 21:53 dateformat -> ../dateformat/bin/cli.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	23 Dec  1 21:53 dev-ip -> ../dev-ip/lib/dev-ip.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	25 Dec  1 21:53 esparse -> ../esprima/bin/esparse.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	28 Dec  1 21:53 esvalidate -> ../esprima/bin/esvalidate.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	18 Dec  1 21:53 grunt -> ../grunt/bin/grunt
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	25 Dec  1 21:53 js-yaml -> ../js-yaml/bin/js-yaml.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	25 Dec  1 21:53 lt -> ../localtunnel/bin/client
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	14 Dec  1 21:53 mime -> ../mime/cli.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	20 Dec  1 21:53 mkdirp -> ../mkdirp/bin/cmd.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	19 Dec  1 21:53 nopt -> ../nopt/bin/nopt.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	16 Dec  1 21:53 rimraf -> ../rimraf/bin.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	20 Dec  1 21:53 semver -> ../semver/bin/semver
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	22 Dec  1 21:53 strip-indent -> ../strip-indent/cli.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	39 Dec  1 21:53 throttleproxy -> ../stream-throttle/bin/throttleproxy.js
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	18 Dec  1 21:53 which -> ../which/bin/which
lrwxrwxrwx   1 peter peter	21 Dec  1 21:53 window-size -> ../window-size/cli.js

I am trying to transfer this directory tree to an SMB share on Freenas 11.2 RC2, but the symbolic links muck it up all the time, and I get "operation not permitted" when the symlinks are to be created at the destination. cp -a does not work, neither does rsync -a, nor creating a tarball to extract at the destination. If I try with a local destination it all works fine.

I have mounted the SMB-share in fstab with //10.0.0.51/hibou2 /home/peter/hibou2 cifs vers=2.1,user,uid=peter,username=peter,password=plaintextpass 0 0. Unless I mount it as 'peter' I can't write to the share. The dataset hibou2 on the freenas is owned by 'peter' (owner&group).

Stackexchange is overflowing with tips and suggestions but it is a cacophony just making my head spin.

Is this a root-related problem? Is it SMB? Am I going about it in the wrong manner?

I spent many hours trying to solve this yesterday, today I thought I should try with an NFS share instead on the Freenas (because, frankly, this share will only be accessed from Linux Mint), but figured I should exhaust the SMB options first by simply asking for help.

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to figure this out?

 

[guermantes]

Were you able to figure this out?

Hi,
Not further than described in the epilogue I added to the top of the original post. I kind of left it hanging since NFS proved to work.