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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:24:09 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>
Subject: Re: Cygwin's symlinks and cifs mounts
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On Jun 12 01:10, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We here have a cifs network share on server LVSMB that is mounted on S:\
> on clients. Could cygwin running on clients see symlinks from unix
> extensions of this cifs share and ln -s build real symlinks on the
> server? (rather than building windows shortcuts or magic cygwin
> symlink).

No.  The fact that symlinks are real symlinks on some Samba share is
hidden to a Windows client.  There's no such thing as a SMB protocol
to create and read symlinks.


Corinna

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