From:	mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject:	Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
7 Apr 1998 12:55:10 -0700 :
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Sergey Okhapkin [sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru] wrote:

>Stuart Adams 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.
>>
>
>Symlinks are marked with "system" file attribute. Samba doesn't support this
>attribute. 

Samba doesn't support it directly, but you can "create mask =" in your
smb.conf file, which can give the desired results.
Perhaps "map system =" or something like that is necessary, too.

>
>--
>Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos

Bye.
Michael.
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