symbolic link to samba share ?

verus001 · 09-21-2009, 05:51 AM

Hello,

i would like to make a symbolic link to a samba share of another linux system.
i mounted the network location and then i try to make the link:

ln -s ./1 ./test
ln: creating symbolic link `./test': Permission denied

that is on the network share itself.
When i try to link to it:

ln -s ./events_storage /zm-events/zoneminder_storage/
ln: creating symbolic link `/zm-events/zoneminder_storage/events_storage': Permission denied

Is it not possible to make symbolic links on a network share ?

thanks,
Ph.

quanta · 09-21-2009, 05:55 AM

sudo?

verus001 · 09-21-2009, 06:19 AM

nope, i tried it as root.

scottq · 09-01-2011, 05:19 PM

dudeman41465 · 09-01-2011, 05:49 PM

Depending on the system (I know this works in Ubuntu) samba and other network shares are mapped in $HOME/.gvfs/directoryname . So creating a symbolic link to that path should work I believe. You could add it to fstab or a script to /etc/rc.local so the share is mounted on system boot so your symbolic link would stay functional regardless of whether or not you've actually mounted the share that day.