From:	mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject:	Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
3 Apr 1998 03:38:30 -0800 :
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Hi Stuart,

>Symlinks don't seem to work on a remote (samba)
>mounted file system. If I do ln -s a b, then say cat b
>I get !<symlink>a.
>
>I mounted the dir with:
>  mount -b m:/gnu /gnu

Cygwin symlinks have to have the "system attribute".
You have to map Windows' "system attribute" somehow to the U*ix file
attributes. Have a look at "map system =" in your smb.conf.

>
>-- Stuart

Bye.
Michael.
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