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Real symlinks on a remote CIFS system are not recognized by Cygwin or Windows either. Rather, they are converted to real files by the underlying CIFS server so that "dumb" Windows clients don't get confused.
Symlinks created with and for Cygwin are not real symlinks (with an exception). They are files with special properties so that they are recognized as symlinks by Cygwin.
Bottom line is, if you create symlinks via Cygwin, they will only be recognized by Cygwin clients. If you want symlinks which work on all systems (NFS->Linux, CIFS->Windows, CIFS->Cygwin), you have to create the symlinks using a Linux client.
Vielen Dank, Alfred
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