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Re: how to create symlink in linux file server from windows using cygwin
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:23:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: how to create symlink in linux file server from windows using cygwin
- References: <CAFLuTBXS+e3H5Y4JFfJNvhgnZh_4iXwghoD8DWD=ngOgbin-Hg at mail dot gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 18 16:15, Divakar K wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> i dont know why ln is not working.
>
> this is what i did.
>
> C:\Users\test1>pushd
> \\ostorenas\odi\ostore_platform_logs\ostore\7.4.0\test1\linux64
>
> Z:\ostore_platform_logs\ostore\7.4.0\test1\linux64>c:\cygwin\bin\ln -s
> diva_test LATEST
>
> in the above line "diva_test" is a folder.
>
> it is created a new file as "LATEST". not as symlink.
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 test1 rdl 4096 Jul 18 05:26 diva_test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 test1 rdl 32 Jul 18 2013 LATEST
>
> or is there any other way to create symlink? or any other command. for
> e.g., windows mklink command?
The Samba server must support storage of DOS attributes. See `man
smb.conf' for how to configure this.
Corinna
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