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Apache cannot display pictures from mounted samba share

Asked by VRBones in Apache Web Server, Gentoo Linux, Samba File Server

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We have a reorganised our internal network and rebuilt a gentoo webserver for intranet use.  Part of the web service is a lookup on students results along with a picture of the student. The students results are brought in from MSSQL and are working fine, as are the student's details. However the picture is not being displayed.

The picture is located on a windows server 2003 box with a network share. This share is mounted to the gentoo box using cifs (mount command listed below) to a standard mount point. The directory that has the photos is then symlinked to an area inside the web directroy.

I can browse the symlinked directory through the shell as well as through a web browser via apache's default directory display. I can see all the photos listed as well as directories and other files. If I click on a photo I immediately get a broken photo icon being displayed. If I click on a html or PHP filie it runs fine from the symlinked directroy.

I can copy a file out of the symlinked directroy into the directory above it and the picture displays correctly, so it's not the picture. I can copy working pictures into the symlinked directory and now they fail to display. Text and other working code copies across the symlinked directory fine and works both inside and outside the symlinked directroy. I can create PHP code from both the windows server and the unix server over the symlink and they all display correctly.  

Apache's config is standard. No .htaccess files exist (yet) on the main portal.
 
This leads me to believe that the mount and symlink are all working fine from the gentoo box, however pulling binary data across the symlinked network share fails. Any ideas?

As a stopgap I've copied the pictures across into the directory and dumped the symlink. All works fine apart from not being constantly up-to-date.
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To mount the photo share:
# mount -t cifs -o username=linuxuser,password=XXXXXX "//staff-fs01.staff.stlukes.qld.edu.au/bm$" /mnt/staff-f
s01/badgemaker/
 
To link it to the web directory:
# ln -s /mnt/staff-fs01/badgemaker/Projects/STUDENT\ ID\ CARD/IMAGES/PHOTO/0 /var/www/portal/images/profile_pics
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Zones: Apache Web Server, Gentoo Linux, Samba File Server
Tags: apache, apache, 2.2.6-r5, Gentoo system with samba (3.0.28) and access to Windows server 2003 file share, PHP 5.2.6RC1-pl1-gentoo
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