symlinks not working on Samba mounted drives.

[Corinna Vinschen]

> Stephen Iribarne wrote:
> 
> I checked out the FAQ on this but my version of Samba 1.9 and the
> latest version I have 2.03 on another Linux box must not support the
> options mentioned in the FAQ.
> 
> When I do from my bash shell:
> 
> ln -s ../main/FileFoo.h .
> 
> If I look at the file that was just created it looks like
> 
> !<symlink>../main/FileFoo.h^@
> 
> The FAQ talks about the option mask system = yes and create mask =
> 0775.  I can't find anything in the Samba doc that talks about this.
> 
> I've tried multiple variations...any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

Creating symlinks on Samba drives is not possible with Cygwin.
A solution would need new versions of both, Cygwin and Samba.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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