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

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jan 16 21:15:05 GMT 2009


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:00:08PM -0600, William Marshall wrote:
> 
> I wrote on 01/12/2009 04:41:02 PM:
> 
> > Volker wrote on 01/12/2009 03:41:44 PM:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:36:02PM +0100, brice.rouanet at iut-tlse3.fr wrote:
> > > > Yes, but with SFU and NFS we can create symlink I think, why samba  
> > > > can't do the same thing ?
> > >
> > > If you can show how a Windows client does this via the SMB
> > > protocol, please send a sniff.
> 
> Initially I had a trace attached here, but that made the post too big. Steve
> and Volker have the trace, so I'll just send the output to the list.

Can you also send it to me please, I'd also like to see how
this is done.

Thanks,

Jeremy.


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