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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:42:33 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> Corinna,
> Is it possible that we could use the NTSEC stuff to store information
> about whether a file is a symbolic link?  I talked to Jeremy Allison
> at Linux Expo and he said that he was doing lots of stuff with security
> type information for samba so if we could do this we might be able to
> have symbolic links on UNIX network drives.
> 
> Is this possible?

I deny giving evidence. My first fast answer would be "no" but
I'm not sure. Would Jeremy talk with me about that problem?
Do you have his email address?

Corinna