I am trying to get around the restriction of symlinks not resolving in FTP when the account is DefaultRoot'ed and CHRoot'ed. I mounted a NAS volume, some directories of which I want to appear as being rooted elsewhere, thus:
# mkdir -p /mnt/nas # mount.cifs //ds1/vol1 /mnt/nas -o [various options] When I 'ls -l /mnt/nas', I see all the directories at the top level of //ds1/vol1. Fine. Now, according to everything I've read about bind mount, I should be able to: # mount -o bind /mnt/nas/doc /home/steve/doc where `doc' is a directory on /mnt/nas as described above, and `/home/steve/doc' is where I want it to appear in my own directory structure. Therefore, if I FTP into the steve account, while I cannot escape up the tree past /home/steve, the path /home/steve/doc should have been able to be created, and I should be able to access it in the normal FTP way. However, the above mount with bind command yields: mount special device /mnt/nas/doc does not exist While that path exist but isn't a special device, the documentation (mount manpages and http://backdrift.org/how-to-use-bind-mounts-in-linux) says this should work. What am I missing about mount with the bind option?
