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From: marty@amc-gw.amc.com (Marty Akerman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: 3.0.1 Symlink Bug
Message-ID: <2799@amc-gw.amc.com>
Date: 22 Aug 90 19:00:53 GMT
Reply-To: marty@amc-gw.amc.com (Marty Akerman)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
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I'm new to this newsgroup, so I don't know if this has been discussed
before or not.

We have PC-NFS version 3.0.1 running on a variety of PCs here, and it was
recently noticed that they do not seem to see the majority of symlinks in
NFS mounted file systems.  In fact, the only ones they see are links that
point to another file within the same directory.

On page 11 of the PC-NFS 3.0.1 Release Notes, this is listed as bug number
1010880 and says "PC-NFS correctly follows symbolic links...."

We've had this rev installed for several months, and I thought it was working
correctly.  But it's been so long that I really can't say for certain.

Has anyone seen this behavior with 3.0.1?  Do symlinks work as advertised
for you?  Is there a fix for this problem?


Please either post a reply, or send me email.

Marty Akerman
mary@amc.com
System Administrator
Applied Microsystems
Redmond, Washington