On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:17:10 +1300
Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Monday 06 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have a folder of files that I want to show up in my shared folder for
> > backing up but I only want the files to be read only when viewed from
> > the symbolic link.
> >
> > Is this possible?
> 
> Make a hard link to the folder, set the permissions of the copied folder 
> to read-only and symlink to it.  Symlinks have the permissions of the 
> file they point to.
> 
> I wonder if this will work?
> 
> Phil.
> 
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No. You can only softlink to a directory. 

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