Permissions issue with symlinks over samba

I'm having trouble accessing some files over a samba share. Here's my setup:

• I have shared /shared as Shared
• I have a user with the same name and pwd as my Linux user in my Windows machine
• I made that user a member of the debian-transmission group
• There's a symlink called /shared/Downloads/Torrents that points to /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads
• That folder is owned by debian-transmission:debian-transmission and its permissions are 4775 (as created by the package)

I need to be able to read and move files from/to /shared/Downloads/Torrents from my Windows box.

Right now, I'm able to do that locally, but I get an access denied error when trying to read the Downloads folder.

From a comment on the previous answer from user charlesbridge (and from the smb.conf docs/manpages), accessing links outside of the share root requires enabling the wide links parameter, which requires both follow symlinks = yes and unix extensions = no. You must ensure your smb.conf has the following settings (explicitly or implicitly):

follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no

Have you enabled wide symlinks in the configuration for your share in smb.conf?

follow symlinks=yes
wide links = yes

Wide links at least is off by default as it might be exploited.