Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:24:09 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: Cygwin's symlinks and cifs mounts Message-ID: <20050612082409.GC6568@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Samuel Thibault References: <20050611231043.GW3783@bouh.labri.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050611231043.GW3783@bouh.labri.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jun 12 01:10, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > We here have a cifs network share on server LVSMB that is mounted on S:\ > on clients. Could cygwin running on clients see symlinks from unix > extensions of this cifs share and ln -s build real symlinks on the > server? (rather than building windows shortcuts or magic cygwin > symlink). No. The fact that symlinks are real symlinks on some Samba share is hidden to a Windows client. There's no such thing as a SMB protocol to create and read symlinks. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/