Does anybody here have any experience with Thursby's DAVE and symlinks on a
Samba Server?
When I connect to my Linux Samba Server via DAVE (running on Mac OS X
10.3.8), I can see all the links that I have made to files that reside in other
directories on the Linux Server. However, Mac OS X thinks they are aliases. And
when I try to open them, I get back a Mac error saying "The alias
"xyz" could
not be opened because the original item cannot be found".
This behavior is very different than what I get on Windows XP or Windows
2000 -- and for that matter, the native OS X SMB/CIFS client -- which treat
symlinks just as any other file.
The reason I'm trying to use DAVE is because of huge performance issues
with
the Native Mac OS X SMB/CIFS implementation. The Apple version is absolutely
useless for my particular application. DAVE performs much better.
However, I have to sort out this links thing. Anybody have any ideas? Is
there something that can be set on the Linux/Samba server side that will make
DAVE behave the way I want?
Thanks for your thoughts
Andy Liebman
