From:	sam AT campbellsci DOT co DOT uk (Samuel James Liddicott)
Subject:	Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
1 Apr 1998 06:52:38 -0800 :
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To:	Stuart Adams <sja AT mediaone DOT net>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Adams <sja AT mediaone DOT net>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: 27 March 1998 04:22
Subject: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir


>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


Of course.  Cygwin symlinks are fake symlinks that cygwin understands.
Samba doesn't allow creation of symlinks by Samba clients.  But this is OK,
because Cygwin makes normal files but with magic contents so it can detect
that the file is symlink.

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