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- From: aarond@xibm.StorTek.com (Aaron Dailey)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: PCNFS and symbolic links
- Message-ID: <AAROND.92Sep4083942@xibm.StorTek.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:39:42 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: dbander@netcom.com's message of 4 Sep 92 06: 43:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.210904.8297@twg.com> oldera@twg.com (Ed Alcoff - Prod Mtg) writes:
- >(Geoff) correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that PC-NFS
- >can handle symbolic links, and if they are absolute, then
- >you use the "net join" program.
-
- How about it Geoff, is there a way for PC-NFS to see symbolic links?
- Whenever I do a DIR or even an ls in a mounted directory known to
- contain symbolic links, the symbolic links do not appear.
-
- Am I missing something?
-
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- | David B. Andersen (dbander@netcom.com) |
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-
- This topic has cmoe up before, and I believe the answer is that as
- long as the link is to a directory contained on the mounted drive it
- will work. But, PC-NFS can't figure out symbolic links to filesystems
- that it doesn't have mounted as part of that drive. For example, we
- have a symbolic link
-
- /project/lcp/src/sys -> /project/twolf/src/sys386
-
- And we have mount /project/lcp/src as a drive on PC-NFS, it won't be
- able to find it. If the symbolic link were to another point within
- the mounted filesystem, it could find the file. Geoff could give the
- technical reason why.
-
- I believe that one of the other NFS client for PC vendors has a way
- around this (FTP, B&W?).
-
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