From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
7 Apr 1998 00:06:06 -0700
Message-ID: <19980331014918.18835.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, cgf AT bbc DOT com, sja AT mediaone DOT net



>From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
>Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:55:39 GMT
>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
>
>In article <3517C0BD DOT 77426B1A AT mediaone DOT net>,
>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 mounted the dir with:
>>  mount -b m:/gnu /gnu
>
>I've noticed this too.  I don't think there is any way around this 
problem
>other than to make the symlink on the remote system, if it is a UNIX 
system.

Here's one to try, don't know if it will work:

umount /gnu
cd /
ln -s m:/gnu gnu
ln -s /gnu/a b



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>http://www.bbc.com/	cgf AT bbc DOT com			"Strange how unreal
>VMS=>UNIX Solutions	Boston Business Computing	 the real can be."


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