can't access a link in folder

[Nils Kassube]

rikona wrote:
> Saturday, March 30, 2013, 12:27:15 AM, Nils wrote:
> > May I propose a totally different approach? I use NFS to share files
> > between my machines via the LAN. I know that symlinks work with
> > Windows accessing NFS shares.
> 
> Verrrry interesting idea! From casual remarks I thought NFS was a
> replacement for ext4 etc, but I see it's an add-on like samba. And if
> links work, it might do what I want.

What I didn't mention in the previous mail: If you want to use symlinks 
across file systems on your Linux machine, they have to be mounted in 
the same exported directory tree. If you would export separate directory 
trees Windows would access them as separate devices (e.g. G: and H:) and 
links wouldn't work because the links on the Linux side don't know about 
the separate Windows device names.

> > For NFS support in Windows you would need "Windows Services for
> > UNIX" which you can download for free from Microsoft.
> 
> I see that. A very quick look seems to indicate that M$ is going to
> drop support in new systems[8+], so perhaps not a good long term
> solution. [All the more reason to stick with XP. :-)) ] But it may
> work for now..

Interesting - I didn't know that detail. The question is if MS just 
don't support it or if it doesn't run. Shouldn't Windows XP applications 
run on Win8? But I wouldn't voluntarily downgrade from XP to Win8 
anyway. :)


Nils