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RE: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Stuart Adams'" <sja at mediaone dot net>
- Subject: RE: symlinks don't work on samba mounted dir
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at buggy dot prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:38:41 +0300
Stuart Adams wrote:
> 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.
>
Symlinks are marked with "system" file attribute. Samba doesn't support this attribute.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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