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How do I configure smbfs to not use "mfsymlink" option when mounting an SMB share?

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I am connecting to a home storage server via SMB. I suspect that Apple's smbfs automatically adds an "mfsymlink" option when mounting server volumes. Is there a way to have it _not_ add that options? My home server uses a FreeBSD OS and a Posix-compatible ZFS file system. I now connect to it via SMB, because AFP server access became unavailable when I upgraded my Mac to macOS Monterey. Now when I create a symbolic link on the SMB share's file system, using my macOS client, what gets written on the file server is a 1067-byte text file known as a "Minshall+French symlink". What I used to get, when connecting via AFP or NFS, is that a Posix symlink was written to the FreeBSD server's Posix filesystem. I would like to get that behaviour using the Apple SMB service in macOS Monterey 14.7.2. How can I accomplish that?
Asked by Jim DeLaHunt (1111 rep)
Jan 6, 2025, 07:03 AM
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