PC-NFS and symbolic links

[Wilfried van Hulzen]

john at 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 at chepil.weru.ksu.edu who
>	suggested using the NET JOIN command to do what the symbolic link
>	does for UNIX.
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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

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