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 Message-ID: <6r2g9xz4pfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: <01BD599E DOT CDC7F360 AT sos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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 !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. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".