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Bug 677397 - Cannot use symlinks on smb share mounted with gvfs
Cannot use symlinks on smb share mounted with gvfs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 562029
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: smb backend
1.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-06-04 14:59 UTC by Daniel Hahler
Modified: 2012-06-06 14:41 UTC
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Description Daniel Hahler 2012-06-04 14:59:13 UTC 
gvfs currently does not appear to support symlinks for "smb" locations.

1. You cannot create symlinks:

    $ ln -s File File2
    ln: creating symbolic link `File2': Operation not supported

2. Symlinks are displayed as regular files/directories.
   If there are existing symlinks in the share already, they get exported as normal files via gvfs.

Symlinks work as expected when using mount.cifs instead.

The bug has been reported initially at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/bugs/871103
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2012-06-06 14:41:04 UTC 
Symlinks are only supported with the POSIX extensions.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 562029 ***