Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:26:46 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts Message-ID: <20030923132646.GZ9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:37:29PM +0200, jurgen.defurne@philips.com wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed this before, but since the solution is simple, > though a little bit annoying, I did not mention it. > > I think this is also only an issue for people who use > cygwin from a shared drive, and the shared drive > comes from Samba, not native Windows. > > Anyhow, I have to recreate manually all symbolic > links, and I have to delete all Windows shortcuts > from my directories, because they do not work. Can you elaborate on this? What means they "don't work"? I can create symlinks on my samba share fine and they also work so the above is not very useful information. Magic formula: "Simple testcase". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/