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Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, cgf at bbc dot com, sja at mediaone dot net
- Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 17:49:17 PST
>From: cgf@bbc.com (Christopher Faylor)
>Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:55:39 GMT
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Reply-To: cgf@bbc.com
>
>In article <3517C0BD.77426B1A@mediaone.net>,
>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 mounted the dir with:
>> mount -b m:/gnu /gnu
>
>I've noticed this too. I don't think there is any way around this
problem
>other than to make the symlink on the remote system, if it is a UNIX
system.
Here's one to try, don't know if it will work:
umount /gnu
cd /
ln -s m:/gnu gnu
ln -s /gnu/a b
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>http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal
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