samba - Jun 2007 - samba3, nfs mounted directory, and dfs

Hello,
    I hope this is the right place to ask this one.
    I've got a FreeBSD 6.2 machine acting as an nfs server. It's
exporting a
home directory to several machines. On the server that home directory has a 
symlink in it to another directory on the filesystem. As long as users are 
on the server they can view the directory symlinked to, but if viewing 
through samba, they're logged on to another machine, that directory 
obviously doesn't show up because the endpoint doesn't exist on the nfs 
clients. I'm wondering would dfs fix this? If so, would i have to do it on 
the server or client boxes?
Thanks.
Dave.

Hi Dave

Mount --bind

Symlink only points at a directory, creates a link to that directory but 
doesn’t act like one.

Symlinks can be accidentally removed and create management issues; therefore 
in some cases it is acceptable to create a hard link that is not breakable.

One way to achieve this is with mount –bind

[root@localhost ~]# mount --bind /test/ /mnt/bind/

>From: "Dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>
>To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
>Subject: [Samba] samba3, nfs mounted directory, and dfs
>Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:30:39 -0400
>Hello,
>    I hope this is the right place to ask this one.
>    I've got a FreeBSD 6.2 machine acting as an nfs server. It's
exporting
>a home directory to several machines. On the server that home directory has 
>a symlink in it to another directory on the filesystem. As long as users 
>are on the server they can view the directory symlinked to, but if viewing 
>through samba, they're logged on to another machine, that directory 
>obviously doesn't show up because the endpoint doesn't exist on the
nfs
>clients. I'm wondering would dfs fix this? If so, would i have to do it
on
>the server or client boxes?
>Thanks.
>Dave.
>
>
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