HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator's Guide, August 2003

Configuration File
Configuration Variables
Chapter 794
of links for directories. Alternatively
you can switch off the optimization
with a commandline switch to find.
enableFakeLinks If this boolean variable is set to yes,
the HP CIFS Client can do softlinks
on Windows-servers. These softlinks
can be used by the HP CIFS Client
clients only. On the Windows server
they look like ordinary files with
special attributes set (system and
hidden attributes, if you have not
modified the configuration).
linkModeMask, linkMode
These two integer variables define
the file attributes that are used to
distinguish faked softlinks from
ordinary files. linkModeMask is 7 by
default, which means that the
attributes read-only, hidden and
system are taken into account.
linkMode defines the actual state
that these attributes must have. It is
6 by default, which means that
hidden and system must be set, but
not read-only. The configuration
value is calculated as the sum of the
following components:
linksAreUnicode If this boolean variable is set to yes,
the HP CIFS Clientstoresfaked links
in Unicode format on the server. This
is incompatible with the CygWin32
format for symbolic links, but allows
lossless storage of client paths. If it is
set to no, symbolic links are more or
less compatible to those of CygWin32
on Windows, but a conversion to the
Table 7-1
1 read-only 2 hidden 4 system 32 archive