PC-NFS and symbolic links
Gardar Georg Nielsen
goggi at rhi.hi.is
Tue Jan 8 20:20:57 AEST 1991
In <328 at pcad.UUCP> john at 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 at rhi.hi.is
University of Iceland
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