From:	cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
30 Mar 1998 15:47:01 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<EqHDCr.2Hy.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References:	<3517C0BD DOT 77426B1A AT mediaone DOT net>
Reply-To:	cgf AT bbc DOT com
To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <3517C0BD DOT 77426B1A AT mediaone DOT net>,
Stuart Adams  <sja AT mediaone DOT 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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