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Watch out for mv command and symlinks on Samba shares
Authored by: bluestar on Nov 06, '03 08:05:55PM

You also have to be aware of what's behind the Samba server. If its underlying filesystem doesn't support symlinks (FAT, NTFS) your Mac shouldn't let you create them.

There's also a tcsh variable 'symlinks'. If you "set symlinks = chase" then it will follow symlinks. If you cd into one it will follow the link and actually cd into what the symlink points to.

So after "cd something_else" your current working directory would've been "something".



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