If you want to use the symlinks.tranlslations file, I am pretty sure you must use absolute paths<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen C. Losen</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu">
scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>&gt; I would like to manage the symlinks in use for the whole company at a
<br>&gt; certain directory depth on our filers (FAS3050 + OnTap 7.2.2). I would<br>&gt; like to create the following setup so that users see a single share when<br>&gt; they browse the filer via CIFS and FTP but give them access to data
<br>&gt; spread over more than 1 aggregate, volume and qtree.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Filer_1<br>&gt; =======<br>&gt; Aggregate_1<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Data_volume_1<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qtree_1<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All_data (single share visible to company)
<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Real_dir_1<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Symlnk_Real_dir_2<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Symlnk_Real_dir_3<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Symlnk_Real_dir_4<br>
&gt;<br>&gt; Aggregate_2<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Data_volume_2<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qtree_2<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Real_dir_2<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Data_volume_3<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qtree_3<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Real_dir_3
<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Data_volume_4<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qtree_4<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Real_dir_4<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I am aware that I need to configure the widelinks option. How do I<br>&gt; create the symlinks from my admin host (FreeBSD) which mounts all the
<br>&gt; volumes over NFS for data management purposes? I don&#39;t want to use a<br>&gt; Windows machine to create the links. My users are Win2K and MacOSX<br>&gt; clients and access their data using CIFS and FTP (NFS may be used later).
<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I have a number of samba servers with this data directory setup as a<br>&gt; single share visible to users but data spread over a number of disks. I<br>&gt; use the unix &quot;ln -s&quot; command to create the necessary symlinks on the
<br>&gt; samba servers.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Feel free to point out what may be glaringly obvious.<br>&gt;<br><br>&quot;ln -s&quot; is what you need.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unlike NFS where the NFS client follows<br>the symlink, with CIFS on a netapp, the netapp follows the symlink
<br>so the symlink must &quot;make sense&quot; to the netapp.&nbsp;&nbsp;The CIFS protocol<br>is not &quot;symlink aware&quot; while NFS is.<br><br>In particular, to link to a different volume, you will need to do<br>something like this:
<br><br>ln -s /vol/othervol/qtree/folder linkname<br><br>This symlink may not work on a NFS client because &quot;/vol&quot; may not<br>exist on the NFS client.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the netapp will certainly understand<br>it.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have never done this, so I don&#39;t know about any issues
<br>regarding access rights.<br><br>Within a volume you can try relative paths in your symlink.<br><br>ln -s ../../otherqtree/folder linkname<br><br>Note that if you ever have multiple filers that you are out of<br>luck because there is no way to symlink to another filer.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Yes,
<br>you can do it with NFS because the client can mount both filers<br>and the client follows the symlink, not the netapp.)<br><br>There are data virtualization products out there on the market<br>(Acopia Networks, for example: 
<a href="http://www.acopia.com">http://www.acopia.com</a> ) that sound<br>kind of like what you want to do, but may be overkill for your<br>installation.<br><br>Steve Losen&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="mailto:scl@virginia.edu">scl@virginia.edu
</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;phone: 434-924-0640<br><br>University of Virginia&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ITC Unix Support<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--tmac<br><br>RedHat Certified Engineer&nbsp;