Hi, A long-time Linux user which recently found himself in a Windows environment, I ran onto an issue with CIFS and need experts' advice. I have a dual boot, Windows 7 and Linux. In Windows 7 I log onto a domain with a username and password. The domain controller is Windows (not Samba), probably 2007 (I have no acess to it). After logging on, I can open Windows Explorer, type the name of a server (like this: \\Server) and I get the list of its shares. I can then double click a share (e.g., "Docs") and view its contents. Its entries are shown as "shortcut folders" (the folder pictogram with the Windows shortcut arrow). I can double click the shortcut and it opens an actual directory with files. My Linux is not member of the domain. I can mount the same share //Server/Docs using 'mount.cifs' with the domain name, username and password. 'ls -l' shows the shortcuts (only their names, not where they point to), but when I try to 'cd' to any of them, I get 'illegal argument'. At the same time, Nautilus (Gnome's file manager) shows the shortcuts as directories, but with the 'X' overlayed (i.e. the directory is not accessible); trying to open it results in an error. However, if there are regular directories and files inside the share, I can access them as usual. (Note: I don't have access to a domain admin account and cannot join my Linux to the domain). My question is: assuming that \\Server\Docs contains shorcuts and that my domain account is allowed to follow them (in Windows), is there any way I can follow them in Linux? (I alreay dot my Exchange mailbox in Linux and also have a suitable Lync replacement, so this seems to be the last remaining issue before dumping Windows.) Thanks in advance for any help. Assen Totin -- 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
