Am Donnerstag, 13. März 2008 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > Hi. I've run into a problem with symlinks and windows, and hope > someone here might be able to iluminate it. > > When trying to create a symlink on a cifs volume mounted from a > Windows 2003 file server, 'ln -s foo bar' fail with operation not > supported. Any idea how to get this working? I've googled quite a > bit, and failed to find any solution. Setting the sfu option to > mount do not seem to help. Is there something that need to be done > on the windows server to get this to work? Any tricks needed on the > linux machine? >
... and btw., if not knowing, >=w2k3SP3 is able to do nfs as server and client, so if cifs is not working the way you want, you may give nfs on the w2k3 server a try. For investigate that you may read: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/r2/unixinterop/default.mspx Greetings, Jürgen Leibner
