can't access a link in folder

[Nils Kassube]

rikona wrote:
> I am trying to access, from Win2000, a link in a folder in 10.04.

I suppose you use samba to access the 10.04 folder on a remote machine?

> The
> link points to a USB disk connected to the 10.04 box. Link/folder
> permissions let anyone access & change. I get 'access denied' - not
> accessible.

The permissions of the link itself don't matter but the permissions of 
the target of the link. I think, for a samba share that would mean that 
the folder / file on the USB disk must be shared as well. 

> The link appears in the Win2000 dir, but looks like a
> plain folder & has no properties. All other stuff can be fully
> accessed in that folder. Can Win2000 not use links in ext3?

If you are really using samba, Win2k doesn't know it is ext3 but it can 
only see a network share. And the link should look like a Windows link, 
after all that is what samba does - translate Linux file systems to 
Windows network shares (or at least that's how I understand it).

OTOH, if you have an ext3 driver for Windows and try to access a file on 
some other partition of a dual boot machine, the link would not point to 
the correct target because the USB disk is not mounted to the ext3 file 
system.


Nils