can't access a link in folder

[rikona]

Hello Amichai,

Friday, March 29, 2013, 12:00:13 PM, Amichai wrote:

> 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 was trying to get a single 'mapped' dir - 'transfer' - that would
have a number of links to places of interest - dirs, USBs, other
boxes, etc, in addition to many files needing transfers to various
places. Sort of like a multi-machine, multi-disk NAS with a simple
entry mapping.

> I am not that good with SAMBA,

Me neither, unfortunately. :-)

> but it seems logical to me that the Win2k client cannot manipulate
> ext3 soft links, only see them as regular files....

That's the way it is starting to look.

Would someone be willing to try this on a Win machine, connecting to a
Ubuntu box, and trying to see inside A LINK on the Ubu box? That would
confirm that the link is the problem, and not something that I am
missing or did wrong. If you do, TIA!!!

Thanks,

-- 

 rikona


> 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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