[mdlug] smbmount and links

[R. Kannan]

I have a smb share from a linux machine mounted on to my windows laptop as a drive (Y:) and when I go into the share, I can follow the link (unix soft link) fine. The file system on the linux machine is XFS if that should make a difference.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Bemus <tony at bemushosting.com>
>Sent: Oct 9, 2008 7:59 AM
>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: [mdlug] smbmount and links
>
>Hello all,
>   I am mounting a smb share that has a link in it that goes to another
>folder.  my computer is trying to follow the link to the location on my
>computer not the smb computer file system.
>
>Does anyone know if it is possable to get it to folow the links?
>
>Tony
>Ubuntu 8.04
>smbmount -v
>    mount.cifs version: 1.10-3.0.28a
>
>
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