Orphaned Symlink

marion.haines@countygovt.brevard.fl.us
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 05:56:03 -0000

Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately, the link doesn't show up in the share
designated to be the MSDFS root at the designated mount point (others).

I can mount this same share with smbmount without problem.  I just can't see
how to get smbmount to do what an MSDFS link could do.

TIA,
Marion D. Haines
Network Administrator
Board of County Commissioners
Brevard County, Florida
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Michael Heironimus [mailto:mkh01@earthlink.net]
Sent:	Friday, January 11, 2002 7:30 PM
To:	iSMTP@GC2A@Servers
Subject:	Re: Orphaned Symlink

ls shows the symlink as being broken because it is broken. UNIX has no
knowledge of MS-DFS or Samba's handling of it. The symbolic link is just
to tell Samba what names should show up in the DFS mount (the symlink
name) and where they should point (the symlink target). The DFS share
can work correctly even though the symbolic link has no real function on
the UNIX side.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:19:11PM -0500, Marion Haines
wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a symbolic link between two Samba shares.  When I
> issue the "ln" command (see below) it appears to run, but if I
"ls"
> the directory, I get white, flashing text on a red background.  This
> is supposed to mean the symlink is orphaned.

<snip>

>           ln -s msdfs:smb2\\Public others

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