I am currently on Arch Linux accessing Samba shares of an NTFS drive connected to a windows machine. I want to be able to create Symlinks from my Arch Linux machine in the Samba shares. I have googled this a bit and the usual response is adding a few lines to Samba.conf:
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no
My understanding is that this code only allows me to use Symlinks that are already created. Is there anyway to create them from my Arch Linux machine?
Those lines in smb.conf are for configuring a Samba server, i.e. a server running in Linux. It changes how the server interprets symlinks in a directory it shares. It has nothing to do with using smbclient (or some other client) to access shares on a Windows machine.
As far as I know, NTFS doesn't support UNIX-style symlinks. I believe Microsoft added something to the filesystem to implement something similiar, but I haven't seen it used, and I don't know if the SMB/CIFS protocol even supports them.
