[Samba] Symbolic links and SAMBA

2002-12-13 Thread Long, Jesse
Hi: I am experiencing the following problem: I have a Linux SAMBA server set up with a share containing the source code for my RH Linux 8.0 kernel, which is on another machine. I have no problems mounting or accessing the share on the RH client. The problem occurs when I run the 'make'

Re: [Samba] Symbolic links and SAMBA

2002-12-13 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:11:05PM -0600, Long, Jesse wrote: ln: creating symbolic link 'asm' to 'asm-i386': Operation not permitted. If you're trying to create a symlink on a remote filesystem mounted via Samba/smbfs, it's not at all surprising that it would not work. Samba makes your UNIX

Re: [Samba] Symbolic links and SAMBA

2002-12-13 Thread Simo Sorce
In samba 3.0 we have unix extensions, they will be available to GNU/Linux client through steve's new CIFS fs (in linux kernel 2.5) most probably. While I still puch for NFS currently, I have to say that CIFS security model is much better as it does not trust machines but requires each user to