From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
2 Apr 1998 19:14:47 -0800
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To: Stuart Adams <sja@mediaone.net>
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---Stuart Adams <sja@mediaone.net> 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 suspect this would have to do with the DOS system file bit not being
set on your b file.  This bit must be set on before it is read for the
symlink information.




> I mounted the dir with:
>   mount -b m:/gnu /gnu
> 
> -- Stuart
> 

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