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Re: Samba on Cygwin: symlinks on Windows
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:51:14 +0200
- Subject: Re: Samba on Cygwin: symlinks on Windows
- References: <000601c22d85$03494930$4756e4c3@szinapszis>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Bori Attila wrote:
> Hello CygWinners,
>
>
> Earlier there was a discussion on the Net about a possible port of Samba to
> Windows: see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00874.html and
> follow-ups. There's even a page
> (http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/News/) where they mention an attempt
> to port a pre-2.0 version (no results though). Somebody answered that this
> was a nonsense idea since Windows already had builtin support for SMB shares
> (both as client and as server).
>
> Well, I know of at least one worthwile advantage of a Samba port on Windows.
>
> Suppose this:
> - you have Cygwin installed to the root of a Windows drive (D:)
> - you share "/" with Samba, and mount it in Windows, as, say, S:.
> - do a "ln -s X Y" and presto: you have a symlink to X on your Windows box!
> You see it as a Windows .lnk on D:, but it looks like a symlink on S:!
I don't get it. You already have symlinks in Cygwin so what's the
actual advantage in this situation?!?
Corinna
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