We use both together... I think that for simplicity, you should get the NetApp license and use it... We use Samba as an helper application for handling soft-links, which we own a lot... NetApp can handle soft-links also, but of course not to outside machines....

Here's a repost of a message posted on this subject a month ago. Stay Tuned!

paul@netapp

-----Original Message----- From: Muhlestein, Mark Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:21 PM To: 'Timothy Demarest'; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Any way for CIFS to see symlinks across qtrees/shares?

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