From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
2 Apr 1998 19:14:47 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19980327152712.15899.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1b.yahoomail.com>
Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com
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To:	Stuart Adams <sja AT mediaone DOT net>
Cc:	gw32 <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

---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 suspect this would have to do with the DOS system file bit not being
set on your b file.  This bit must be set on before it is read for the
symlink information.




> I mounted the dir with:
>   mount -b m:/gnu /gnu
> 
> -- Stuart
> 

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