My situation is *slightly* different but has some resemblence.
I do ftp installs accross my LAN. Using the 'bootnet' diskette.
On the server, I mount the CD-ROM as usual under /mnt and then I
execute:
# ln -s /mnt/cdrom/RedHat /home/ftp/RedHat
And this *works*. Never had any problem. RH6.0 and/or RH6.1.
Regards
Gustav
David Krings wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> Although I use pro-ftpd (easier to configure etc. imho) i came across the
> linking problem acroos different file systems, too. I could link the
> directory, i could even see it in the ftp dir, but when i treid to access
> it i received the error message "directory not found". In my case it is
> that i have a directory on a vfat drive and want it to be accessed via ftp
> running Linux. What i did and what solved my problem is mounting the vfat
> partition directly into the ftp directory. I added it to the fstab file
> using automount and user. Finally i created a softlink so that i can find
> the same drive also under /mnt/windir (did a ln -s /home/ftp/windir
> /mnt/windir). After doing this i had no problems to access this vfat
> partition via ftp from another client on my local network, it should work
> with modem connections as well.
>
> Maybe that is the solution you are looking for and i guess it works with
> wu-ftpd as well. Basically it is a permissions problem and this is one way
> to solve it.
>
> Figuring this out i finally solved my eudora mailbox linking problem. Two
> main probs were again permissions (solved that by setting gid and uid in
> fstab) and that the directory on the vfat drive was named "Eudora Mail".
> There seem to be no way to link a vfat dir that contains spaces in its
> name, so i just renamed it to "Eudora" and got it working. Now i can access
> the mailboxes with kmail, although there are some strange thigs going on,
> coz Eudora keeps even deleted emails in the mailbox files, which now
> reappear using kmail. I will try to transfer the mails i want to keep into
> a new mailbox file and then rename it to be like the old one.
>
> Ok, now i replied to Erics and answered my own question i posted a week
> ago. Maybe someone can use it to solve a problem.
>
> Greez
>
> Dave
>
> >How do you add another directory to my ftp? I can not use a link
> >because it is across a file system.
>
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