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From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com>
To: "Steve Biskis" <mlx AT san DOT rr DOT com>, "cygwin" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>,
        "Mumit Khan" <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Cygwin symbolic links on a SAMBA server
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:10:59 -0500
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I guess you missed a message in Cygnus archive :-)  Mumit has already
explained this week (on  Monday?)
Thanks for refreshing memory. :-)
Suhaib







----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Biskis <mlx AT san DOT rr DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>; Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Cygwin symbolic links on a SAMBA server


>Hello all,
>
>Yes, indeed, this post got me off my duff to do a little research.
>
>I found "SAMBA, Integrating UNIX and Windows" by John D. Blair.
>
>Uncovered the following info which is claimed to be current to
>version 1.9.18 (early patches).
>
>From  page 191 ---
>
>Retaining the DOS Hidden, Archive and System Attributes:
>
>map archive
>
>Default: map archive = yes
>
>map hidden
>
>Default: map hidden = no
>
>map system
>
>Default map system = no
>
>So, to get the Cygnus symlink system attribute to translate accross
>SAMBA correctly one must set:
>
>map system = yes
>
>The section goes on to state that map archive, hidden and system use
>the UNIX user, group and other execute bits, respectively.
>
>The info below is slightly different, so I'll test it now and post the
exact
>results.
>
>I apologize for the jumping the gun a bit.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve B.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>
>To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
>Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 2:54 PM
>Subject: Cygwin symbolic links on a SAMBA server
>
>>UWIN (and Cygwin) implements the symbolic links by adding a magic
>>cookie to the file and then setting the SYSTEM attribute (this is
>>possibly just for efficiency, at least in Cygwin). Samba servers
>>support this SYSTEM attribute by setting the group execute bit on a
>>file, so it does support the symbolic links already. Unfortunately,
the
>>reason you don't see it is because it's turned OFF by default.
>>
>>If you need to have symbolic support in the server (which I do since I
>>do a lot of the work on mounted disks), you can turn it on by the
>>following in the Samba configuration file and then restarting it:
>>
>>   mask system = yes
>>   create mask = 0775
>>
>>the "create mask" can be anything as long as you *DON'T* mask out the
>>group execute bit (ie., 010), which is what Samba server uses to
>>support the SYSTEM attribute.
>>
>>Please consult your SAMBA docs before doing anything. I don't know how
>>far back this support goes, but I remember it back in 1.9.x days.
>
>
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