Irritating Problem: sharing a SymLink or Alias via AFP

Fahrvergnuugen

Fahrvergnuugen

I am the law!
I wanted to share my music folder, but I relocated it to another hard drive. I replaced my "Music" folder in my home directory with a SymLink that points to /Volumes/Null/Music/

I then copied the symlink and put it in my anonymous ~Public/ directory. When I try and access the folder via AFP, it says that the original item cannot be found.

I also tried making an OSX alias by using hte command-option-drag command, but the Alias doesn't work either.

The contents of /Volumes/Null/Music are all owned by me and are set to read by everyone.

What gives, this is so annoying!

[on a side note, why the heck are there two types of links, both SymLinks and Aliases? Why not just use SymLinks???]
 
Why did you make the symlink then move it? Why not just make it in the right place the first time? I am not sure if it would make any difference, this just struck me as odd.

What does it say when you do an ls -l on the symlink? And what are the permissions/owner of the symlink itself?
 
I tried it that way first because I used SNAX to make it. When you make a symlink with SNAX, it just creates it in the same directory then you move it.

lrwxr-xr-x 1 reloaded staff 18 May 14 00:02 Music -> /Volumes/Null/Music
 
Ugh, then what's the point.

Anyone know how to create a custom share point. I don't know of a way through apple's gui, any ideas on how to do it from the command line?
 
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