Problems with ~/.wine/dosdevices symlinks on samba servers

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Mon Jun 22 08:44:37 CDT 2009


On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Ben Klein<shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> According to
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_thread/thread/9b0c746965d34f73
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.samba/browse_thread/thread/a00c04cccf1a40fb#
>>> 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



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