From: sam@campbellsci.co.uk (Samuel James Liddicott) Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir 1 Apr 1998 06:52:38 -0800 Message-ID: <005001bd5960$e9941350$2a0110ac.cygnus.gnu-win32@sam.ethernet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stuart Adams , gnu-win32@cygnus.com -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Adams To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: 27 March 1998 04:22 Subject: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir >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 !a. > >I mounted the dir with: > mount -b m:/gnu /gnu Of course. Cygwin symlinks are fake symlinks that cygwin understands. Samba doesn't allow creation of symlinks by Samba clients. But this is OK, because Cygwin makes normal files but with magic contents so it can detect that the file is symlink. Sam Liddicott | Nothing I say is to be attributed as | Campbell Scientific Ltd. | a company statement or representation. | Campbell Park, 80 Hathern Road, *----------------------------------------+ Shepshed, Leic. United Kingdom. LE12 9AL Phone: +44 (0) 1509 601141 Email: sam@campbellsci.co.uk Fax: +44 (0) 1509 601091 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".