On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Ben Kleinshacklein@gmail.com wrote:
According to http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_thread/th... http://groups.google.com/group/linux.samba/browse_thread/thread/a00c04cccf1a... a user is having trouble because the symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices don't work when on a Samba share.
In my opinion CIFS is unsuitable for such Unixy things as home directories.
That's certainly been the bias of Unix folks for a long time, but Jeremy Allison et al have been working hard for ages to make it suitable, so we should at least try to support it.
Is the problem just the : in the filename (in which case it's expected behaviour on Windowsy filesystems) or the fact that a symlink is being used?
CIFS has "unix extensions" which allow symlinks, so it's solely the colon in the filename, I think. - Dan