From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
30 Mar 1998 18:36:09 -0800
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To: Stuart Adams <sja@mediaone.net>, gnu-win32@cygnus.com

At 09:18 AM 3/24/98 -0500, Stuart Adams wrote:
>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
>
>-- Stuart
>

For performance reasons, cygwin only looks at files with the "system" 
attribute set to determine if the file is a symbolic link or not.  This
would tend to explain the behavior you see.  I'm not aware of a workaround
but then again I don't know much about samba:-(


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