Symlinked directories disappeared from Samba share

After a recent update on my Ubuntu server some directories had disappeared from a couple of Samba shares.

It turns out wide links are now disabled by default to fix a security vulnerability. This causes symlinks that point outside the share to no longer show up in clients.

I decided to manually enable wide links but disable unix extensions to get my symlinks back (without the security risk).

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