can't access a link in folder

[Amichai Rotman]

Excuse my question - but why would you need to even use the link if you
have access to the folder the link is pointing to?

I'd create a shortcut to the desired share on the USB on the Win2k
machine...

I am not that good with SAMBA, but it seems logical to me that the Win2k
client cannot manipulate ext3 soft links, only see them as regular files....

  Amichai Rotman
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:32 PM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hello Nils,
>
> Thursday, March 28, 2013, 2:40:56 AM, Nils wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Yes.
>
> >> 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.
>
> I just tried a simpler case. In 10.04 folder A and folder B are both
> shared - both are just folders in 10.04, no USB this time. Both A and
> B, and their contents, are fully visible in Win2000. I added a link in
> B pointing to A. In Win2000 the link is 'not accessible' though.
> Something is going on re a link.
>
> >> 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,
>
> Yes.
>
> > 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).
>
> The link shows, and one can click on it, so in that sense Win2k is
> seeing the link. But, the contents are 'not accessible'. The contents
> are fully accessible if it is not linked, which would seem to say that
> the permissions are OK.
>
> > 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.
>
> Not the case...
>
> Thanks,
>
>  rikona
>
>
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