soulseeqt symlink issues

system: uname -a
Linux Shodan 3.19.3-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 26 19:16:03 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

client: soulseeqt build 2014-11-30, 64-bit (current downloadable version)

issue: the client does not follow symlinks

example: shared directory is "Books" (/home/phoenix/books)

░▒▓█phoenix@Shodan█▓▒░ Thursday, 16th April. 23:55:15
[pts/0,1192$,1+,0&,0x] ~/: ls -l Books
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 phoenix users 25 30.03.2015 17:51 Comics -> /mnt/Storage/Books/Comics/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 phoenix users 25 30.03.2015 17:51 eBooks -> /mnt/Storage/Books/eBooks/

░▒▓█phoenix@Shodan█▓▒░ Thursday, 16th April. 23:55:17
[pts/0,1192$,1+,0&,0x] ~/: ls -l Books/Comics/
total 20
drwx------ 2 phoenix users 4096 17.03.2015 01:31 Alan Ford/
drwx------ 4 phoenix users 100 17.03.2015 01:32 Dark Horse/
drwx------ 7 phoenix users 4096 17.03.2015 01:33 DC/
drwx------ 4 phoenix users 83 17.03.2015 01:34 Image Comics/
drwx------ 20 phoenix users 4096 17.03.2015 01:44 Marvel/
-rw------- 1 phoenix users 100 17.03.2015 01:33 desktop.ini

"/mnt/Storage/Books" is an xfs filesystem, however that's unlikely to be relevant, the targets exist and are populated.

░▒▓█phoenix@Shodan█▓▒░ Thursday, 16th April. 23:55:38
[pts/0,1192$,1+,0&,0x] ~/: ls -l Books/Comics/Alan\ Ford/
total 3582000
-rw------- 1 phoenix users 57516021 17.03.2015 01:31 Alan Ford 001 (Colore) - Il Gruppo TNT.cbr
-rw------- 1 phoenix users 89468520 17.03.2015 01:31 Alan Ford 002 (Colore) - Il Dente Cariato.cbr
-rw------- 1 phoenix users 92796996 17.03.2015 01:31 Alan Ford 003 (Colore) - Operazione Frankenstein.cbr
-rw------- 1 phoenix users 92428070 17.03.2015 01:31 Alan Ford 004 (Colore) - La Casa Dei Fantasmi.cbr
-rw------- 1 phoenix users 90406661 17.03.2015 01:31 Alan Ford 005 (Colore) - Date Date Date.cbr
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