making "tunnels" across directories

[Sven Oehme]

mount -o bind  :-) 

Sven



Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> 
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10/09/06 06:08 PM
Please respond to
Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>


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Toni Casueps <casueps at hotmail.com>
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Re: making "tunnels" across directories






On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:00:09AM +0000, Toni Casueps wrote:
> 
> I need to give access to a directory which is inside a restricted path. 
I 
> can make a hard link to a file that lies there and it can be accessed 
even 
> though it's inside forbidden directories, but I can't make hard links to 

> directories. Is there a feature in Samba to do this?

No. UNIX/Linux doesn't allow hard links to directories as this
may lead to loops.

Jeremy.