Hi Pete,
Sorry, I left that step out. You're assumption are right...
/usr/src/cvstree is on the Windows system and /home/chris is on my linux
system. Thanks for the answer. I'm sure I just have some other type of
configuration issue.
Thanks!
Chris
>From: "Pete Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Symbolic Link question
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:59:35 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 11 10:38:42 2001
> > From: "Christopher Harrer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Symbolic Link question
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have a windows share mounted on my Linux development system via 'mount
>-t
> > smbfs...'. Is it possible to create symbolic links to files under that
> > share and if so how do I do it?
> >
> > I'm currently trying to do the following, without success:
> >
> > ln -sf /usr/src/cvstree/test.c /home/chris/test.c
>
>Unfortunately, you didn't mention which shares you mounted where.
>
> I assume you're trying to execute the 'ln -s' command on the Linux
> system, not on the Windoze system, since Windoze doesn't have such a
> command.
>
> If /usr/src/cvstree is some directory on the windoze system that you've
> mounted on that path in the Linux system, and /home/chris is a REAL
> Linux directory on the linux system AND you have write access to that
> directory and read access to the /usr/src/cvstree/test.c file, you
> should have no problem creating the symlink.
>
> If, on the other hand, /home/chris is a directory in a DOS/Windoze
> filesystem, you can't create symlinks THERE, since the DOSdoze
>filesystems
> don't support it.
>
>
> > I get "operation not permitted".
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Chris
>
>
>
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