Newbie question: symlinks and samba

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Steve McWilliams <stevemc@Radix.Net> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have noticed that cygwin (b20) doesn't create symlinks correctly in our
> windows nfs (maestro) filesystems, though it does so correctly in the ntfs
> filesystems.
> 
> I'm assuming this is probably some inherent limitation in windows nfs, so
> I am considering switching to samba instead.  Does anyone know whether
> symlinks (e.g. using 'ln -s') can be created successfully using a
> cygwin+samba 
> solution?

The answer you seek can be found in the archives.  In short _yes_ it can be
done, the SystemFile attribute needs to be set for the symbolic links to work
in cygwin.  If setup properly samba can do what you want.  Note: This is the
extent of my knowledge on this.

=====
Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >

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