From: Operating system: windows 2008, 2008R2,2003 PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: Filesystem function related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Symlink() Fails On DFS Shares
Description: ------------ We have a DFS Standalone namespace created at the 2008 Server with a new folder which has been given a target as remote share .We are trying to create a symlink in this remote Share from 2008R2 Server for a directory and as well as File and Both the cases Fail.The Expected result is failure in creating the symlink using symlink(). The processs Montior show with the result of "Name Not Found" in creating a symlink. Test script: --------------- <?php $path ='\\\\winhost-name\\namespace\\folder\\'; $dir_name = "symlinkdir"; $symlink_name = "symlinktodir"; var_dump(mkdir($dir_name,0777,true)); var_dump(symlink($dir_name,symlink_name)); ?> Expected result: ---------------- bool(true) bool(true) Actual result: -------------- bool(true) bool(false) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51945&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51945&r=mysqlcfg