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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:23:52 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: how to create symlink in linux file server from windows using cygwin
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On Jul 18 16:15, Divakar K wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> i dont know why ln is not working.
> 
> this is what i did.
> 
> C:\Users\test1>pushd
> \\ostorenas\odi\ostore_platform_logs\ostore\7.4.0\test1\linux64
> 
> Z:\ostore_platform_logs\ostore\7.4.0\test1\linux64>c:\cygwin\bin\ln -s
> diva_test LATEST
> 
> in the above line "diva_test" is a folder.
> 
> it is created a new file as "LATEST". not as symlink.
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 2 test1 rdl 4096 Jul 18 05:26 diva_test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 test1 rdl   32 Jul 18  2013 LATEST
> 
> or is there any other way to create symlink? or any other command. for
> e.g., windows mklink command?

The Samba server must support storage of DOS attributes.  See `man
smb.conf' for how to configure this.


Corinna

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