<div dir="ltr">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?<div><br></div><div style>I'd create a shortcut to the desired share on the USB on the Win2k machine...</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>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....</div><div><br><div id="WISESTAMP_SIG_gmail_session">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Nils,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Thursday, March 28, <a href="tel:2013" value="+9722013">2013</a>, 2:40:56 AM, Nils wrote:<br>
<br>
> rikona wrote:<br>
>> I am trying to access, from Win2000, a link in a folder in 10.04.<br>
<br>
> I suppose you use samba to access the 10.04 folder on a remote<br>
> machine?<br>
<br>
</div>Yes.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> The link points to a USB disk connected to the 10.04 box.<br>
>> Link/folder permissions let anyone access & change. I get 'access<br>
>> denied' - not accessible.<br>
<br>
> The permissions of the link itself don't matter but the permissions<br>
> of the target of the link. I think, for a samba share that would<br>
> mean that the folder / file on the USB disk must be shared as well.<br>
<br>
</div>I just tried a simpler case. In 10.04 folder A and folder B are both<br>
shared - both are just folders in 10.04, no USB this time. Both A and<br>
B, and their contents, are fully visible in Win2000. I added a link in<br>
B pointing to A. In Win2000 the link is 'not accessible' though.<br>
Something is going on re a link.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> The link appears in the Win2000 dir, but looks like a<br>
>> plain folder & has no properties. All other stuff can be fully<br>
>> accessed in that folder. Can Win2000 not use links in ext3?<br>
<br>
> If you are really using samba,<br>
<br>
</div>Yes.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Win2k doesn't know it is ext3 but it can only see a network share.<br>
> And the link should look like a Windows link, after all that is what<br>
> samba does - translate Linux file systems to Windows network shares<br>
> (or at least that's how I understand it).<br>
<br>
</div>The link shows, and one can click on it, so in that sense Win2k is<br>
seeing the link. But, the contents are 'not accessible'. The contents<br>
are fully accessible if it is not linked, which would seem to say that<br>
the permissions are OK.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> OTOH, if you have an ext3 driver for Windows and try to access a<br>
> file on some other partition of a dual boot machine, the link would<br>
> not point to the correct target because the USB disk is not mounted<br>
> to the ext3 file system.<br>
<br>
</div>Not the case...<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
rikona<br>
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