[linux-cifs-client] Can't create symlink on a windows share

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 21:21:59 GMT 2009


On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:32:13 +0100
brice.rouanet at iut-tlse3.fr wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> thanks, I haven't SFU but i can install it, is there any doc about sfu  
> and samba ?
> 
> Brice.
> 

Actually...that won't help you. It looks like symlink creation generally
just fails with -EOPNOTSUPP if unix extensions aren't present (and they
won't be with a windows server). I'm afraid you'll need to use a server
that supports posix extensions. I think only Samba does this currently.

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Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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