Symbolic link in NFS

[Kiyoung]

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

[Ravi_8]

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

[Jochen Heuer]

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

[Jochen Heuer]

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

[T G Manikandan]

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

[T G Manikandan]

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.

Revert

[Kiyoung]

Thanks a lot.