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noobi3 question...

I was reading how to share over samba in knoppix from this site...
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqSambaQuick
and one of the first things it gets you to do is

Quote:

now you create a file out of the link smb.conf:

'cp smb.conf smb1.conf'
'rm smb.conf' confirm with 'y'
'mv smb1.conf smb.conf'

can someone tell me what the piont in this is?
thanks

smb.conf originally is a symbolic link. Doing that process gives you a real smb.conf file.

Doing 'ls' might show something like this:

Code:

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Apr 13 22:05 file1

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Apr 13 22:05 file2

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root            5 Apr 13 22:05 smb.conf -> file1

file1 and file2 would have different types of configurations or something. You can think of a symbolic link as something similar to a shortcut in Windows. But anyway, after doing the process you quoted, smb.conf would be a real file containing the contents of whatever file it used to point to.

This is just a guess, but I can't think of any other reason to have you do what you described :)

oh i understand, and thatl be what is ment by "create a file out of the link "
-thanks