[plug] Cheap and (not so) nasty NAS

[hooker at iinet.net.au]

Quoting Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>:
> Daniel J. Axtens wrote:
> 
> > You hopefully already know that you (probably[1]) can't use symlinks
> > with samba.
> 
> Actually, you can.
> 
> # mount -t cifs //euclid/cameron /mnt
> # ls -l /mnt/public_html
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 cameron cameron 15 2005-01-18 11:45 /mnt/public_html ->
> web/public_html/
> 
> Samba has supported Unix extensions for quite a while now (as of Samba
> 3.0 I believe).  The Linux CIFS filesystem implementation has also
> supported it for about the same time.  IIRC from one of the talks at
> LCA, Mac OS X's CIFS implementation should also support it.

Ahhh! Thanks.

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