In versions prior to the 6.2 release, symbolic links were not allowed to leave a share. That was primarily to prevent use of symlinks to bypass share-level security.
Starting with the 6.2 release, there is a way to securely follow symbolic links out of a share, or even onto another filer. Starting with the 6.2.1 release, you can also set up another way to allow symbolic links to cross out of a share to any path on the same filer, in situations where you are not worried about share-level security. Both of these capabilities are enabled by per-share options.
There no limit to the number of symlinks.
Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Moshe Linzer [mailto:Moshe.Linzer@nsc.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:03 AM To: Frank Smith Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Symbolic links
CIFS will only follow relative symlinks within a share. Files and dirs will both work. I don't know about any limits.
Moshe
Frank Smith wrote:
Any of you have any experience using symbolic links between NFS and CIFS?
I'm particularly interested in peculiarities, or problems?
Does this work for directories and files?
Is there a limit to the number of symlinks?
Thanks for your help.
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