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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:20:18 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:01:28PM +0200, jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com wrote:
> Hello, Corinna,
> 
> Symlinks form the installation are created as ordinary
> files, ie. instead of eg.

Uh, I see.  Setup doesn't create symlinks as shortcuts.  It still uses
the old system file method to create symlinks.  The system bit must be
mapped by samba to get this right.  If you're interested to get it
working, see `man smb.conf' on your Linux box and search for "map system".

Corinna

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