To Whom: I am exploiting a feature of the CIFS server that works for the client under Windows 8 (not sure about others), but does not work for the linux client under RedHat/CentOS5/6. I am mounting multiple Thecus NAS devices via CIFS, making symbolic links to files on those NAS devices, where I reorganize the directory structure, and then turn around and serve the top level of that directory via CIFS. On a Windows machine I only have to mount that top level directory, and the symbolic links automatically resolve themselves without having to also mount the NAS device(s). THIS IS VERY POWERFUL. On a linux machine however, the symbolic links can only be resolved if I have the NAS devices mounted, and the mount points have to be named as shown in the link. It seems that the protocol necessary for this to work under Windows has not been added to the linux version of the client. When I surf the web for others exploiting this feature, I find nothing. Thanks Steve Finley Research Associate CIRA - Colorado State University -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
