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Re: SMB symlink compatibility between Cygwin, Windows XP, and Windows 7
- From: Brian Alexander <brian dot alexander at ni dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:59:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: SMB symlink compatibility between Cygwin, Windows XP, and Windows 7
>On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Brian Alexander wrote:
>>
>> Anyone have any other ideas of how to make a shortcut to a SMB path
that
>> will work in both Windows XP and Windows 7, and is also traversable by
>> cygwin?
>>
>
>I'm not familiar with CYGWIN=winsymlink to understand what it does; I
>can guess but I've not reviewed the code. You could use junction
>points for directories. Junction points should work for both XP
>(regardless of the service pack) and Win7.
Unfortunately, junctions do not seem to work with SMB paths, only local
volumes.
Sincerely,
Brian Alexander
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