topic Re: Symbolic link in NFS in Operating System - HP-UX

Symbolic link in NFS

Kiyoung — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:20:16 GMT

Hi.
I was export a directory,it contains a symbolic link that points outside the exported directory.
I mount the directory on an NFS client,but I can't access the symbolic link file.
How can I access the file?
I need a solution.
Thanks.

kiyoung

Re: Symbolic link in NFS

Ravi_8 — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:25:47 GMT

Hi,

since the sym links are for across the file systems. since you don't have that file system on the NFS clinet, you need to get import that file system too

Re: Symbolic link in NFS

Jochen Heuer — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:32:54 GMT

Hi Kiyoung,

I don't think this will work because symbolic links are checked on the client side (it tries to find the file the link points to on the local system).

Regards,

Jochen

Re: Symbolic link in NFS

Jochen Heuer — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:36:58 GMT

As ravi says. You have to export the other filesystem too and mount it to the same mountpoint where it is mounted on the server. Then the link can be traversed ...

Regards,

Jochen

Re: Symbolic link in NFS

T G Manikandan — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:40:20 GMT

should also export the file system to which symbolic link points.
NFS client does not know anything except the present mount points.

Re: Symbolic link in NFS

T G Manikandan — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:44:43 GMT

Also make sure that

/xxx on system A is mounted as /xxx on system B so that when the symbolic link works properly.

For example consider
file /zzz/yyy linked to /xxx/yyy

Now according to your situation /zzz/yyy is nfs mounted,so xxx should also be mounted nfs and the mount point should be the same i.e /xxx on the nfs client machine.

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Re: Symbolic link in NFS

Kiyoung — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:11:50 GMT

Thanks a lot.