On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:13:35AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 04:20:41PM -0600, Justin Ryan wrote: > > Good point. I would venture to guess that SMB/CIFS may not have a link > > command - afaik, the OSes that originally/natively use(d) it do not > > support links of any kind. > > That's not quite true. Well, I don't know about the LanManager systems, > but I do know that WindowsNT supports symbolic links, and maybe > hardlinks. I recall creating a symbolic link on NT4.0 workstation with > the cygnus tools 'ln' command. Yes... symbolic links using magic files. But I don't know about hardlinks. > Trying to delete the file in Explorer.exe gave a fun dialog that the > file was a system file, and as such deleting it might lead to > undesirable results. (Nothing odd happened.) ... the file had 's' - system - flag turned on, which is presumably part of the magic. > -- > "Nothing says, 'Superpower' like bombing a country that is poor and > hungry." -- Ken Brush ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
