[Samba] symbolink links in samba

[John Drescher]

On 8/23/07, gas can <gascan211 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I thought symbolink links work in samba versions greater than 3 and linux
> kernel 2.9
> I tried mounting a windows XP share with the following options,
>
> mount -t smbfs //ip/results  /data/results -o username=xxx
> ,password=xxx,gid=502,uid=100,fmask=777,dmask=777,rw 0 0
>
> I could access the files, create files and directories.
> But, when I tried creating symbolink links* I get operation not permitted.*
>
> I checked with cifs too, I get the same message.
> Any help regarding this is appreciated.
>
You are trying to create a symbolic link on a windows filesystem
mounted with in linux?

John