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Re: Samba on Cygwin: symlinks on Windows


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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