Hello,

I work in a lab when all the guys use PCs with Windows and access the lab linux servers via ssh.

I prefer linux, so I have a local installation of ubuntu 10.4 on my PC. I mount the home of our lab server using mount server:/home /mnt/home/. I can then access the files on the server (I had to change my local UID to match the one assigned to me on our server in order to be able to write to my home dir).

The problem is all the (symbolic) links I have on the server don't work when I access them through the mounted location. I guess the system simply tries following the link in my local /home instead on server:/home.

Is there a way to make the links work?

Thanks,
Dave

Not without making the location the server points to on it's filesystem also exist on the client machine to reproduce the location where the real file is. There isn't any way on NFSv3 to make the symlink be worked out on the server side.

so I guess I can mount server:/home to /home... but I guess that's not such a good idea, is it?

well it depends how the environment works really. It's extremely common for /home to live on a remote server, but if that's not the intention in this implementation, might not go down to well with the server admin.

Hi Dave

Why don't you ssh into the server from your machine (similar to what you described the Windows users are doing)? I'm assuming that if you're able to mount the server; there shouldn't be any firewall/network issues that prevent you from doing a remote ssh into the machine?

Doing an ssh means you're shelled into the box and thus your symlinks should work fine.

I want to run stuff locally, just have access to the storage.