samba - Apr 2003 - Creating softlinks in SMB FS

I'm setting up a Linux (RH8.0) client to authenticate
against an Active Directory. Home directories should also
be located on the AD server.

Everything works fine, exept softlinks...

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[root@client1 turbo]# /bin/pwd
/home/turbo
[root@client1 turbo]# mount | grep /home/turbo
//chandler/turbo on /home/turbo type smbfs (0)
[root@client1 turbo]# ln -s /usr/bin/printf printf
ln: creating symbolic link `printf' to `/usr/bin/printf': Operation not
permitted
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Is this a bug in the SMB fs module, faulty mounting (ie,
params to mount.smbfs) by me or something that haven't
been setup correctly on the SMB server?

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:08:38PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson
wrote:
> I'm setting up a Linux (RH8.0) client to authenticate
> against an Active Directory. Home directories should also
> be located on the AD server.
> 
> Everything works fine, exept softlinks...
Trying to create symbolic links on smbfs isn't going to work because
smb is a Windows-native protocol, and Windows doesn't really have such
things.

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Michael Heironimus