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Re: Cygwin's symlinks and cifs mounts
- 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>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:24:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: Cygwin's symlinks and cifs mounts
- References: <20050611231043.GW3783@bouh.labri.fr>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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