On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ken <> wrote: > I was of the understanding that junctions were not supported over a CIFS > share (my ultimate target; as with 1.5x). Perhaps you have information to > the contrary? > > Since I have to manage the Win XP side for the foreseeable future, it > appears that I will have to adopt another methodology to centrally manage > these files due to the new 1.7x symlink implementation. > > That said, I still think Cygwin is GREAT! > > Thank you again, > Ken >
I looked up some information on NTFS junction points. From Wikipedia: "Junction points can only link to directories on a local volume; junction points to remote shares are unsupported." You could try Microsoft DFS which *does* support network mounts. You could also try fsutil to create a hard link to the /etc/group file (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788097%28WS.10%29.aspx). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
