Mark,
It works ! Thanks very much. Just one more thing-I would like this to work on some other quota trees also;can I just add similar lines into my /etc/symlink.translations files ?
Currently, my /etc/symlink.translations file looks like this :
dv40ss5# cat symlink.translations Map /eeg/sandbox/* /sandbox/* dv40ss5#
Presumably , I can add as many lines as I need like this for trees called "shared","dev" or whatever:
Map /eeg/sandbox/* /sandbox/* Map /eeg/shared/* /shared/* Map /eeg/dev/* /dev/*
then terminate and restart CIFS and I'm in business ? I'm just checking that there isn't a limit of one line in the /etc/symlink.translations file or something like that.
Please let me know ASAP, as this problem has caused us a huge backlog of work and we would like to get cracking again.
Thanks,
Raymond
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Muhlestein [mailto:mmm@netapp.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 6:15 PM To: Raymond Brennan Subject: Re: Soft Links ON NT ( again)
The syntax "//sandbox/*" isn't right, I suspect. That means you have a volume named "sandbox". I'm assuming you want a directory named "sandbox" in the root volume. In that case try it without the double slashes:
Map /eeg/sandbox/* /sandbox/*
Let me know if this works for you.
Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Raymond Brennan ray_brennan@mentorg.com To: Simmons Mr M D mds46523@ggr.co.uk Cc: toasters@mathworks.com toasters@mathworks.com Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 7:59 AM Subject: RE: Soft Links ON NT ( again)
maybe, I'll wait to see what Mark has to say. I've been trying to get this to work for over two weeks now without success. My users are getting a bit annoyed about it to say the least. Hopefully, we'll hear from him today before 5PM GMT.
:?
-----Original Message----- From: Simmons Mr M D [mailto:mds46523@ggr.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 3:56 PM To: Raymond Brennan Subject: Re: Soft Links ON NT ( again)
Hmm, I'm afraid I'm out of good ideas already.
I can't see why it's not working now - perhaps we should see what wisdom Mark from NetApp can glean.
Did you have to replace the symlink.translations file? Can it not take both the line you mentioned previously and the line you've got there now, at the same time?
Keep us posted - this is of general interest IMHO.
On Sep 23, 15:36, Raymond Brennan wrote:
Subject: RE: Soft Links ON NT ( again) Mark,
Now, I can see the permissions via SecureShare, but still can't
read or edit
the file. Here is what the /etc/symlink.translations file now looks like :
cat symlink.translations Map /eeg/sandbox/* //sandbox/*
Here is what a long listing looks like on Unix :
{dv40ss5::raybr} [10] % l total 2 drwxrwsr-x 2 raybr eeg 4096 Sep 22 16:21 . drwxr-sr-x 6 raybr eeg 4096 Sep 22 14:01 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 raybr eeg 25 Sep 22 15:19
absolutesoftlink ->
/eeg/sandbox/raybr/1/test -rw-rw-r-- 2 raybr eeg 6 Sep 22 14:03 hardlink lrwxrwxrwx 1 raybr eeg 9 Sep 22 15:18
relativesoftlink ->
../1/test {dv40ss5::raybr} [11] %
The file I want to be able to access is absolutesoftlink. if I
try to send
it to a text editor, I get :
Access is denied.
I have stopped and restarted CIFS as you said. So, what do I do now ?
:(
-----Original Message----- From: Simmons Mr M D [mailto:mds46523@ggr.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 3:14 PM To: Raymond Brennan; Mark Muhlestein Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Soft Links ON NT ( again)
On Sep 23, 10:59, Raymond Brennan wrote:
Subject: RE: Soft Links ON NT ( again) Mark,
I've got a quota tree on my F520 called "sandbox". My F520
system name is
"tap", mainly because I got fed up of typing in "netapp" all the
time.
Anyway, what I'm trying to do is to get soft links with absolute
path names
to work on NT. They work fine on Unix(as you woud expect).
I've installed
SecureShare on all my PCs and am using Unix-style security on
"sandbox" and
indeed as the default security style on all other trees.
I use NIS on my LAN. "sandbox" on "tap" is accessed on Unix as /eeg/sandbox-the NIS map is called auto.eeg and has this line in it
:
sandbox -intr tap:/sandbox
So, on Unix, all I have to do is
# cd /eeg/sandbox
and I'm there. Hard links (ln file linkname) work fine on NT, as
do relative
soft links ( ln -s ../file linkname). The problem I'm having
is with soft
links with absolute path names on NT. If, for example, I do # cd /eeg/sandbox/dir2 # ln -s /eeg/sandbox/dir1/file linkname
NT can't seem to access linkname on /eeg/sandbox/dir2 at all,
apart from
showing it in the Windows Explorer. I hope this is clear.
My /etc/symlink.translations file looks like this :
Map /sandbox/* //sandbox/*
The double slash on the second field is to counteract Bud ID
9553, which I
found on the NOW website. Also, I've tried terminating and
restarting CIFS,
but without success.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
I think I know why the NT box is having problems, and I think I can demonstrate a similar situation on two Unix boxes.
Simply put, absolute symlinks have too much information, they're too precise for either the NT box or the filer to map them correctly.
To demonstrate my hypothetical scenario, I've use my home directory on ukwfs2 another F520 (running 4.3.1, for interest).
On our (SunOS4.1.4) admin host:
uk-dns-stv1-root /net/ukwfs2/users/d23/mds46523: ln -s \
/net/ukwfs2/users/d23/mds46523/dead.letter flibble
uk-dns-stv1-root /net/ukwfs2/users/d23/mds46523: ln -s ./dead.letter flobble
Creating two symlinks in my home directory to a simple text-file also in the directory, one absolute, one relative.
Now, on a client, in my home directory:
0 ukwit12> head -2 flibble UX:head: ERROR: Cannot read from flibble 1 ukwit12> head -2 flobble
From mds46523 Thu Sep 17 18:07:40 1998
From: mds46523@ukwsv1.ggr.co.uk (Simmons Mr M D)
The absolute symlink simply overspecifies the location, which my client has no way to map to something it can understand and use.
The NT box is in as bad a position as my Unix client - the
/eeg/... part of
any absolute symlink in your Unix domain doesn't match anything in the NT box's wordlview, and the filer has no rule to map it for the NT box.
Extend the mapping rules in the filer, or revert all absolute
symlinks to
relative symlinks and I think you'll be able to work around the
problem.
I'd try adding:
Map /eeg/sandbox/* //sandbox/*
to your /etc/symlink.translations file.
:)
"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"
--Marilyn Pittman
>-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Muhlestein [mailto:mmm@netapp.com] >Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 6:40 PM >To: Raymond Brennan >Subject: Re: Soft Links ON NT ( again) > > >Send me a copy of your symlink.translations file, along with
a specific
>description of what you are trying to do, and I'll try to
help get you
>going. > >One thing that may not be documented clearly is that you
have to restart
>cifs before the symlink.translations file is reloaded. Yes,
it's a bug.
> >Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com >
<SNIP> -- End of excerpt from Raymond Brennan
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