Missing Links

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at switchboard.net> wrote:
> 
> : > I know it sounds unbelieveable but I've just noticed that *all* the
> : > linked entries don't appear on the PC screens when the users browse the
> : > UNIX boxes through the "Network Neverhood" :) ....
> :
> : what are "linked entries"?
> 
> I guess he means links created with the ln command.
> 
> In my box links appear just fine when browsing the shares.

there are some CIFS-unix extensions (www.cifs.com/cifsext somewhere...) 
which describe how to implement symbolic links and inodes etc, for using 
unix->CIFS<-unix.  a bit like unix->NFS<-unix.

luke