Hi !
I don't doubt that this works, but are you mounting different filesystems
types, too ? I think that makes it become a problem coz there are no access
rules administrated by a vfat system, only if they are preset in the fstab.
My suggestion is one way to make it work.
Greez
Dave
At 14:42 10.03.00 +0100, you wrote:
>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.
>
>> 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.
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