Samba/nfs symbolic link problem.

[James Macele Jones]

I have a bit of a problem here. When I mount a samba or nfs share that
contains symbolic links it seems that Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" reads the
links and regular links... for example:

On my server I have a share with 3 drives linked in it. The share is
called Music... Within the music share I have symbolic links to 3
mounted HDDs. 

[Music]
 A-J --> /mnt/350gig_a
 H-O --> /mnt/350gig_b
 P-Z --> /mnt/250gig

With Nautilus everything works as it should... and if I mount the share
with Nautilus everything works as it should. However, if I mount it with
mount -t or smbmount or mount.cifs I get a successful mount but my
system tries to resolve the links LOCALLY. Therefor all the links show
as broken... because I don't have a /mnt/350gig_a on my local machine.

How I have spent a good bit of time on the samba forums and the Ubuntu
forms to no avail. I see many people posting with the problem but few
with any workable solutions. 

I should probably mention that the shares also work fine on a windows
box. Makes me think it must have something to do with my local cifs
configuration.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks,
Mac