A recent update to samba screwed up symlinks for Windows machines. Some web pages have incorrect information about how to fix this. This is the correct information (but note that the first contributor on that page has "wide symlinks" which is wrong): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1439092 sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf Then I put this under the [global] section Note: It's "wide links" and not "wide symlinks" follow symlinks = yes wide links = yes unix extensions = no Save it and then run this to restart samba. sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart Mike