On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:14:04PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:35:08AM -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I have a linux server that's exporting a samba share at a windows-dominant site. In a directory of the share, there's a symbolic link to a different (non-shared) partition. (We had to move a
Are you using Absolute links( ex /usr/share ) or Relative (ex ../../usr/share)? What apears as the link on the client? Does the link apear, or is it just a empty dir? Bill Mills-Curran wrote: directory due to space limitations.) Windows clients can mount the share and follow the symbolic link. My fedora-3 client can mount the share (smbmount), but cannot follow the link. I seem to remember that a RH 9 client would follow the link.
Any idea what's going on?
Not sure, but you can try CIFS instead of SMBFS:
mount -t cifs -o user=<user/workgroup> //server/share /mnt/point
Chuck,
I tried it. It mounted, but the symbolic link behavior was the same.
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