[Gllug] Symlinks not following over samba/NFS in linux

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Fri, July 17, 2009 02:40, Shannon Carver wrote:
> Hmm, still doesn't appear to have worked (tried this on the client
> machine).  I was under the impression that smb.conf was for the Samba
> daemon
> only and not client connections?
>
> On the other hand, remember that when a windows machine mounts the drive,
> the link works fine, so I dont think I need to worry about changing
> anything
> NAS side (the actual Samba settings a little bit slim within the unit).
>
> Cheers
>
> Shannon
>
>
> Shannon Carver
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>


I was under the impression that vfat and ntfs do not support symlinks, and
that vista "kind of" supports them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

Maybe its different under samba.

Salsaman.


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