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 16:20:18 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts Message-ID: <20030923142018.GB6489@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 04:01:28PM +0200, jurgen.defurne@philips.com wrote: > Hello, Corinna, > > Symlinks form the installation are created as ordinary > files, ie. instead of eg. Uh, I see. Setup doesn't create symlinks as shortcuts. It still uses the old system file method to create symlinks. The system bit must be mapped by samba to get this right. If you're interested to get it working, see `man smb.conf' on your Linux box and search for "map system". 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/