On Linux, I'm doing a CIFS mount of an entire Windows 7 hard drive (aka C$). My intent is to take regular whole-disk snapshot backups of the drive using rsync. For any "junction" on the Windows drive, I get permission denied on the Linux CIFS mount side. But using "ls", these junctions just look like regular directories. Is there any way to identify them as junctions, so that I can exclude them from my rsync backup? Or even better, is there some way to have them not show up at all on the CIFS mount? A good example of this is "C:\Documents and Settings". This is a junction that maps to "C:\Users" on Windows 7. I get permission denied if I try to ls Documends and Settings, but I can ls Users without any issue. Here's my /etc/fstab entry: //192.168.185.24/C$ /mnt/windows/matt cifs //noperm,ro,ignorecase,credentials=/root/smb_auth.txt 0 0 Contents of /root/smb_auth.txt: # cat /root/smb_auth.txt username=WindowsUsername password=WindowsPassword domain=WindowsDomain Running the mount command: # mount -v matt domain=WindowsDomain mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=192.168.185.24,unc=\\192.168.185.24\C$,noperm,ignorecase,credentials=/root/smb_auth.txt,ver=1,user=WindowsUsername,domain=WindowsDomain,pass=******** Contents of /proc/mounts after being mounted: # cat /proc/mounts | grep matt //192.168.185.24/C$/ /mnt/windows/matt cifs ro,relatime,sec=ntlm,unc=\\192.168.185.24\C$,username=WindowsUser,domain=WindowsDomain,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.185.24,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,nocase,serverino,noperm,rsize=16384,wsize=65536 0 0 Thanks, Matt -- 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
