Re: Symlinks on a windows share?
Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> Hi. I've run into a problem with symlinks and windows, and hope
> someone here might be able to iluminate it.
>
> When trying to create a symlink on a cifs volume mounted from a
> Windows 2003 file server, 'ln -s foo bar' fail with operation not
> supported. Any idea how to get this working? I've googled quite a
> bit, and failed to find any solution. Setting the sfu option to
> mount do not seem to help. Is there something that need to be done
> on the windows server to get this to work? Any tricks needed on the
> linux machine?
>
... and btw., if not knowing, >=w2k3SP3 is able to do nfs as server and
client, so if cifs is not working the way you want, you may give nfs on
the w2k3 server a try.
For investigate that you may read:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/r2/unixinterop/default.mspx
Greetings, Jürgen Leibner
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