Accessing a samba share, a symlink, on host, to a folder, appears as an empty folder

Question

In a server, with Debian 10 and Samba 4.9, there are 2 HDs with this mount points:

/hd1
/hd2

In /hd1 there is a folder that is Samba shared.

/hd1/share

Inside the share I decide to move a folder to /hd2

/hd2/afolder

and create a symlink to it

ln -s /hd2/bigfolder /hd1/share/bigfolder

At server

ls /hd1/share/bigfolder

shows

file1
file2

Accessing the share from a client (Ubuntu 18.04)

smb://server/share/bigfolder

it seams like an empty folder.

I need to see and work in the files (file1 and file2)

Check is https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5120/how-do-you-make-samba-follow-symlink-outside-the-shared-path helps. — Ferenc Wágner, Oct 26 '19 at 09:38
Rather than adding the solution to the question itself, you may post it as a proper answer. You may later accept your own answer if nobody else posts a better one. Accepting an answer marks the issue as solved. I have rolled back your most recent edit. — Kusalananda, Nov 04 '19 at 22:00
Do you, who commented, think it would be better to delete this question? — Anselmo Blanco Dominguez, Nov 06 '19 at 11:47
No, don't delete but leave it: your question will become a signpost to another question... 0:-)@AnselmoBlancoDominguez — Fabby, Nov 14 '19 at 22:58
There! You're a 21 rep user already. 0:-) Also don't forget to "accept" your own answer as some people might not click on the link and only read yours. — Fabby, Nov 24 '19 at 20:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 24 '19 at 20:22

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Solved using the following settings as mentioned here already.

In the "global" section:

allow insecure wide links = yes

In the Share section in question:

follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes

edited Nov 24 '19 at 20:22

Fabby

answered Nov 18 '19 at 12:34

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