Re: [Netatalk-admins] symlink solution needed

[AndrewL733 <And...@ao...>]

Search on the web for Dan Wilga at Mount Holyoke University. He wrote a 
"symlink patch" for Netatalk. I have applied it to netatalk 2.03 with 
good results -- as good as what I got with Netatalk 1.64.

Andy

pr...@di... wrote:
> I would break out the symlinks as separate "Volumes" to be shared.  
> Users would see each one in the list of available Volumes when 
> connecting to the server.  This should be OK if there's a small amount 
> of them.  If you have dozens, well, then it gets to be a tad unwieldy!
> 
> $0.02,
> ...ROMeyn
> 
> 
> At 12:38 PM +0100 1/4/06, Bengt Nilsson scribbled:
> Dear all,
> 
> We have a tru64 system with several disks, file systems and nfs mounts 
> from other hosts.
> We are using symlinks extensively to access the other disks and nfs 
> mounts directly from the user home, the user have access/ownership of 
> directories in various places. We see currently no problem with this, 
> and netatalk 1.9 can make use of this setup very nicely.
> 
> Now the latest netatalk release 2.0xxx abandon symlinks altogether.
> For variuous reasons I want to upgrade the netatalk installation, but 
> then the user would not have access to the other file systems anymore 
> when connecting via afp. Does anybody have a suggestion how to 
> re-organize things or in any way solve this problem?
> 
> -- 
> Bengt Nilsson
> Chalmers University of Technology,
> SE-412 96 Göteborg, SWEDEN
> e-mail: <mailto:ben...@mc...>ben...@mc...
> tel: +46-31-7728480
>