can't access a link in folder

[rikona]

Hello Nils,

Saturday, March 30, 2013, 12:27:15 AM, Nils wrote:

> rikona wrote:
>> 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!!!

> May I propose a totally different approach? I use NFS to share files
> between my machines via the LAN. I know that symlinks work with
> Windows accessing NFS shares.

Verrrry interesting idea! From casual remarks I thought NFS was a
replacement for ext4 etc, but I see it's an add-on like samba. And if
links work, it might do what I want.

> For NFS support in Windows you would need "Windows Services for
> UNIX" which you can download for free from Microsoft.

I see that. A very quick look seems to indicate that M$ is going to
drop support in new systems[8+], so perhaps not a good long term
solution. [All the more reason to stick with XP. :-)) ] But it may
work for now..

Also might introduce some security issues, but I have to learn more.

Thanks very much for the suggestion!

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 rikona