X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Authenticated: #449785 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:19:25 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Koeppe cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: interoperability between samba, linux-cifs, cywgin and sfu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 [please cc me on replies] On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Martin Koeppe wrote: > 8. CreateHardLink() Windows API [cygwin] [ActivePerl] > ====================================================== > > The CreateHardLink() Windows API function isn't apparently able to create > hardlinks on network drives, whereas with the sfu ln utility, you can. Both > C:\sfu\common\ln.exe and C:\sfu\bin\ln work, where the former seems to call > the latter internally. As CreateHardLink() is used by cygwin (and ActivePerl, > too), you cannot with these. I just verified that CreateHardLink() works correctly on network drives, IF you use WinXP or Win2003. I tested successfully WinXP-SP2 and Win2003-SP0. On Win2000-SP4 however, it does not work. :-( Thank you, Corinna. Martin -- 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/