Problem with Symbolic links in shares...
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:04 am
Hi,
I'm new to Amahi, and while I've been using linux for a while, I don't really have much linux-foo. So, I've installed Fedora 14 and Amahi 6.1 and things seem to have set up just fine. I have the standard shares and I can map these as network drives on my windows 7 laptop.
I only have a small disk internal to the box, but I have several large external disks which I would like to mount and access through amahi. Several of these disks contain the same media (e.g. movies) because any one disk is not large enough to hold all the media of one type. So I figured that I'd just plug the disks in, and add symbolic links to /var/hda/movies from the files on the disks. This is similar to the way greyhole works I think. Unfortunately when I do this, the symbolic links aren't visible from the mapped network directory on my windows 7 laptop and I have no idea why
I've tries adding "follow symlinks = yes" and "wide links = yes" to the directory entry in smb.conf file (through the amahi advanced options), but that doesn't seem to have solved the problem.
Any ideas on how to do this sensibly? The only thing I'm not keen on trying is enabling greyhole for the external disks. This isn't recommended in case they aren't there for some reason, and I'd like to keep control of exactly which disk a file exists on in case I end up moving to a different system.
Cheers.
I'm new to Amahi, and while I've been using linux for a while, I don't really have much linux-foo. So, I've installed Fedora 14 and Amahi 6.1 and things seem to have set up just fine. I have the standard shares and I can map these as network drives on my windows 7 laptop.
I only have a small disk internal to the box, but I have several large external disks which I would like to mount and access through amahi. Several of these disks contain the same media (e.g. movies) because any one disk is not large enough to hold all the media of one type. So I figured that I'd just plug the disks in, and add symbolic links to /var/hda/movies from the files on the disks. This is similar to the way greyhole works I think. Unfortunately when I do this, the symbolic links aren't visible from the mapped network directory on my windows 7 laptop and I have no idea why
I've tries adding "follow symlinks = yes" and "wide links = yes" to the directory entry in smb.conf file (through the amahi advanced options), but that doesn't seem to have solved the problem.
Any ideas on how to do this sensibly? The only thing I'm not keen on trying is enabling greyhole for the external disks. This isn't recommended in case they aren't there for some reason, and I'd like to keep control of exactly which disk a file exists on in case I end up moving to a different system.
Cheers.
I didn't when I first tried it so that may well have been the problem.