From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir 3 Apr 1998 03:38:30 -0800 Message-ID: <6qfE4iDppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: <3517C0BD.77426B1A@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 !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. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh@mike.franken.de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".