Linking with samba

Hi,

Does anyone have any information on the state of links (hard links or symlinks, or even silly Windows shortcuts) in Samba?

More specifically I have a Windows 2003 share mounted on RHEL 3 and I'm not allowed to create symlinks or hard links (or pipes probably, but haven't tried). Is there a mechanism that I can set up that will give me any kind of link functionality (i.e. refer to the same file using 2 different paths)?

I know you can set up links on a samba share so that Windows can use links, but as far as I can see Windows (at least WinXP) just overwrites symlinks with files when you write to the links, totally breaking the link. I image hardlinks would work fine, but I've not tried it.

Ben
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