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coastal593

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hi i have an ftp server with files distributed across 2 drives. i'd like people to be able to link to files on the second drive. however creating an alias doesn't work. (these are standard users, standard privelages, no chroot jail at all). what kind of link do i have to create for this to work, how can i make such a link?

thanks
 
I've actualy tried symbolic links, they will not work either if the other party is using an FTP client. Hard links are not able to span over multiple drives so you have to use soft links. the clients will not follow the soft links.

maybe I'm doing it wrong.. using the "ln" command from the terminal right?
 
yea, exactly. I can create a sym link using -s. in the terminal it will follow just fine. unfortunately when using a ftp program, it will not follow the link. The hard link may work but it will not span multiple volumes
 
Well by definition hard links can't span file systems. I just tried setting up a symlink to another volume on my system and it worked through ftp just fine. I'm using PureFTPd. Look in the config for your ftpd. It's very possible there is a setting there to not allow symlinks.
 
how do you create sym links? i tried using ln -s but its givin' me a syntax error ... must be something stupid in the way i'm reading the man file. could someone post an example?
 
cd to the directory you want to create the link in
type something like "ln -s /volumes/rhino/mp3s mp3s"
/volumes/rhino/mp3s is replaced with the abosolute path to what you want to link to. mp3s is replaced with what you want the link to be named.
 
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