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From: goggi@rhi.hi.is (Gardar Georg Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: PC-NFS and symbolic links
Message-ID: <2607@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 8 Jan 91 09:20:57 GMT
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In <328@pcad.UUCP> john@pcad.UUCP (John Grow) writes:

>It seems that Sun's PC-NFS (Version 3.0) does not recognize symbolic
>links through the file systems mounted as drive letters.  For example,
>if there is an NFS directory /usr/dostools which has the subdirectories:
>toola, toolb, and toolc and a symbolic link to another filesystem called
>toold, then from PC-NFS, only tool[a-c] can be accessed.  toold does not
>even show up in the directory listing.

>Is there a way around this (besides mounting the other filesystem as 
>another drive)?  Has this been changed in the latest version of PC-NFS?

You can never access filesystem without mounting it.  This has nothing to
do with PC-NFS, the same thing will happen if you try to do this between
two unix machines.

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Gardar Nielsen					goggi@rhi.hi.is
University of Iceland