NFS mounting a directory of symbolic links to other directories

[Don Levey]

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Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:50:49AM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
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>> Here's my situation:
>> On my main server I have a directory containing all my music, in
>> /base/music/artist/album format.  I created a second directory,
>> /base/kidsmusic, intending to link to a subsection of the artists in the
>> music directory and create a list of kid-safe music.
>>
>> I have both /base/music and /base/kidsmusic exported in my /etc/exports
>> file, and I can mount the kidsmusic directory remotely.  However, while
>> I can see all of the links remotely, I can't access them.
> 
> When you mount the kidsmusic directory, it is full of symlinks,
> thus, you can ls them.
> 
> When these are dereferenced for access, they point to places
> which don't exist on the client system.
> 
> Does that sound right?
> 
> -dsr-
> 
> 

Looking at the full directory listing, yup - that's right.

 -Don
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