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Re: symlinks not working on Samba mounted drives.
- To: Stephen Iribarne <stv at tutsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: symlinks not working on Samba mounted drives.
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:00:39 +0200
- CC: cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <45BA125AAE48D311B03D00508B0CA96AA3D281@itsmail.tutsys.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
> Stephen Iribarne wrote:
>
> I checked out the FAQ on this but my version of Samba 1.9 and the
> latest version I have 2.03 on another Linux box must not support the
> options mentioned in the FAQ.
>
> When I do from my bash shell:
>
> ln -s ../main/FileFoo.h .
>
> If I look at the file that was just created it looks like
>
> !<symlink>../main/FileFoo.h^@
>
> The FAQ talks about the option mask system = yes and create mask =
> 0775. I can't find anything in the Samba doc that talks about this.
>
> I've tried multiple variations...any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
Creating symlinks on Samba drives is not possible with Cygwin.
A solution would need new versions of both, Cygwin and Samba.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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