[Samba] symbolink links in samba

[gas can]

Yes. I thought thats possible with latest samba and cifs. Is it not ?

Thanks,
Karun


On 8/23/07, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>