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Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 27 Mar 1998 22:19:00 +0100
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Stuart,
>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 !<symlink>a.
>
>I mounted the dir with:
> mount -b m:/gnu /gnu
Cygwin symlinks have to have the "system attribute".
You have to map Windows' "system attribute" somehow to the U*ix file
attributes. Have a look at "map system =" in your smb.conf.
>
>-- Stuart
Bye.
Michael.
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