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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-----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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Quoting message received from Yoder, Alan:
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.
A working ln function in your jsh might not make it in the feature request list for Ontap?
You might try SAMBA: mount the CIFS share and then make it available as an NFS export.
FYI: if you use Linux, it can mount CIFS shares natively. You could "house" the links on any Linux box and re-export them using the "passthrough" function.
JKB
I just realized a mistake in my response: the passthrough mounts are a SAMBA feature, not Linux...
JKB
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of James Brigman Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 9:12 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: symbolic links
You might try SAMBA: mount the CIFS share and then make it available as an NFS export.
FYI: if you use Linux, it can mount CIFS shares natively. You could "house" the links on any Linux box and re-export them using the "passthrough" function.
JKB
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