Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dnlunx!freyr!vhulzen From: vhulzen@freyr.pttrnl.nl (Wilfried van Hulzen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: PC-NFS and symbolic links Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 91 17:07:25 GMT References: <328@pcad.UUCP> <2607@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <329@pcad.UUCP> Sender: news@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl Lines: 34 john@pcad.UUCP (John Grow) writes: >(My original posting) >> >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: >[stuff deleted] >Basically the issue comes down to two separate problems: > a) the number of mounts allowed by PC-NFS (limited to 7 I think). > b) the failure of PC-NFS to recognize symbolic links. > For b) I got an e-mail response from wagner@chepil.weru.ksu.edu who > suggested using the NET JOIN command to do what the symbolic link > does for UNIX. >-- >John Grow | uucp: (uunet!pcad!john) >Personal CAD Systems/CADAM | >1 Technology Park Drive | >Westford, MA 01886 | I found by trial and error that PC-NFS only recognizes symbolic links that stay within the mounted part of the file system. So symbolic links to another file system or that refer to directories `beyond the root' of the mounted part don't work. This also means that mounting the other file system separately will not help you. Wilfried H.P. van Hulzen --- PTT Research Neher Laboratories [ E-mail: WHP_vHulzen@pttrnl.nl] P.O. Box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, [ UUCP : hp4nl!dnlunx!vhulzen ] The Netherlands. Tel: +31 70 3326402