The filer's CIFS implementation follows symlinks
within the same share, and if you use widelinks,
across shares. This is transparent to the CIFS
client except for a DFS redirection in the case of
a wide link.
 
For a Windows-side tool that can set Unix symlinks
on machines running Data ONTAP, contact your SE.
 
Alan

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Alan G. Yoder                                    agy#netapp.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Sesow [mailto:tsesow@nsllc.com]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:58 PM
To: Mike Langas; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: symbolic links

From my investigations, Windows doesn't seem to have symbolic links.
The "shortcuts" that you see on a Windows desktop doesn't resolve at the CreateFile
level (operating system call), so it is only handled by Explorer (which is an application, not
the operating system).  I have not been able to find a CIFS method
of creating a symbolic link (and I have looked repeatedly).


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Mike Langas
Sent: Fri 7/30/2004 1:11 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: symbolic links

My company tried to save some money by getting a Netapp without the NFS license
because we will not be using it with Unix.  The problem is we need to use a few
symbolic links.  It seems that the only way to create them is via a NFS mount.
Does anyone know a way around this?

Thanks,

Mike Langas


               
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