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Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- To: Stuart Adams <sja at mediaone dot net>
- Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 07:27:12 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gw32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com
---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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