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Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts


On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:37:29PM +0200, jurgen.defurne@philips.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed this before, but since the solution is simple,
> though a little bit annoying, I did not mention it.
> 
> I think this is also only an issue for people who use
> cygwin from a shared drive, and the shared drive
> comes from Samba, not native Windows.
> 
> Anyhow, I have to recreate manually all symbolic
> links, and I have to delete all Windows shortcuts
> from my directories, because they do not work.

Can you elaborate on this?  What means they "don't work"?  I can create
symlinks on my samba share fine and they also work so the above is not
very useful information.  Magic formula: "Simple testcase".

Corinna

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