# What am I missing out on to get symlinks to collaborate with CIFS?

Circumstance

I have a brainless Ubuntu 10.10 RC box running a couple of solution applications on my residence network. I have a Windows 2008 Server organizing all my network shares and also disk drives. I am presently placing the network drives at boot - up making use of FSTAB with the adhering to alternatives set:

credentails=/etc/smbcredentials,. iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noserverino,sfu

Question

What alternative do I require to ready to get SYMLINKS to effectively register making use of CIFS? I need to confess the details in man mount.cifs does not appear to give a clear adequate definition of which alternatives I need to be making use of for correct assistance.

Trouble

When running RSYNC from the Ubuntu equipment to support picked folders to the Windows shares, it falls short attempting to recreate the SYMLINKS. I am worried that this will certainly create a trouble when later on attempting to recover these documents back need to I ever before require to.

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2019-05-13 04:12:24
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Not certain, yet I are afraid that a cifs share, that in your instance is basically a folder on a ntfs dividing readily available via the network, can not take care of symbolic web links.
Various would certainly hold true if the cifs share were given by a samba web server on a linux equipment.

The remedy that enter your mind is:

• create a massive adequate documents on the share (with dd, as an example)
• create a ext4 filesystem on this documents
• mount the documents as a dividing photo, with - o loop
• usage this ext4 dividing as a location for your back-up
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2019-05-17 16:50:26
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