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** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871103 Title: cannot create symlinks on smb share mounted with gvfs Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: When I mount an smb share with gvfs (e.g. through Nautilus), I expect that symlinks can be created on that filesystem. This is possible if I use "mount -t cifs" instead, but that is a more manual and less flexible process that should not be necessary. To reproduce: 1. in Nautilus, mount an smb/cifs share with "smb://<address>" 2. right-click a file/directory in the nautilus view 3. from the context menu, pick "Make Link" Expected behaviour: A link to the selected file/directory should be created, as would occur on a local ext4 filesystem Actual behaviour: I get an error saying "The target doesn't support symbolic links". My guess is that this is because gvfs' smb implementation doesn't implement the kind of UNIX extensions that the Samba cifs client uses. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/871103/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
