That restriction exists to enforce share level ACLs. However, we do have plans to allow such symlinks securely. Unfortunately, I can't give you info on when. I'll add you to the list of folks who have asked for this.

Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: Timothy Demarest [mailto:demarest@arraycomm.com] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 11:31 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Any way for CIFS to see symlinks across qtrees/shares?

Is there any way to set the Filer to allow symbolic links to traverse other qtrees? I have a symlink on one CIFS share, which is a qtree, that points to a directory on another CIFS share, which is another qtree. Obviously, this works fine for NFS clients, but the CIFS clients just see the symlink as a regular file, not as a directory.

Thanks, Tim