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Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Christopher Faylor)
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:55:39 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <3517C0BD.77426B1A@mediaone.net>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot 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.
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VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."
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