Symlink configured is not working on Windows clients
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- SMB/CIFS
- Symlink
- Windows
- Unix
Issue
- When attempting to access a symlink path via Windows clients, access times out with error:
Network path is not accessible at this time, try again later- Access with a unix client accessing the symlink path is successful
[root@rhel1 test]# ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 24 07:52 folder
drwxr-xr-x. 2 nobody nobody 4096 Jun 24 07:52 folder2
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 nobody nobody 21 Jun 24 07:56 test2 -> /mnt/nfs/test2/folder
[root@rhel1 test]# cd test2/
[root@rhel1 test2]# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--. 1 nobody nobody 0 Jun 24 07:54 file
-rw-r--r--. 1 nobody nobody 0 Jun 24 07:54 file1
-rw-r--r--. 1 nobody nobody 0 Jun 24 07:54 file2
-rw-r--r--. 1 nobody nobody 0 Jun 24 07:54 file3
[root@rhel1 test2]#- ONTAP symlink configuration matches the path configured on the Unix client that created the symlink
Vserver: svm1_cluster1
UNIX Path: /mnt/nfs/test2/folder/
CIFS Share: test2
CIFS Path: /folder/
Remote NetBIOS Server Name: CIFS1
Local or Wide Symlink: widelink
Home Directory: false
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