Error While Copying Symlinks Not Supported By Backend

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files from my local hard drive to my thumbdrive, I keep getting this error: Filesystem does not support symbolic links. I don't know what this is, I need help with transferring files. Dragging and dropping, does not work for me, the error appears. Right-click on the file and select copy, and then right click on the thumbdrive and select Paste does not work, I am still getting the same error. filesystem symbolic-link share|improve this question edited Nov 8 '12 at 14:54 Mateng 389319 the device does not support symbolic links asked Nov 8 '12 at 13:18 owl 2,16362044 dragging and dropping, does not work for me, the error appears. right click on the file and select Copy, and then right click on the thumbdrive and select Paste does not work, I am still getting the same error. –owl Nov 8 '12 at 13:31 add a comment| 6 Answers 6 active oldest votes up vote 4 down vote accepted A symbolic link is a file that points to another file, a kind of alias for a filepath. It is not compatible with the FAT-32 filesystem commonly found on USB drives. To find the symbolic link, you can open the terminal and do an ls -al in the directory you are having problems with - the symbolic link will have an l as the first character in the listing (where directories have a d). Or else, you can do a find DIR -type l where DIR is a directory that might (indirectly) contain symbolic links (. is ok too). If you want to copy the content: ls -al LINK, where LINK is your link, will tell you where it points to (if LINK is a directory you will have to remove the final slash in case you have one). Just copy that. N.B.: ls -l is normally sufficient, I just added the a in order to display hidden files, whose name starts with a dot - for the case where the link is a hidden file. But,

Technology - unRAID Server Community » Legacy Support (unRAID 5 and Older) » General Support (V5 and Older) » [SOLVED] need advice on howto migrate symlinks from NAS to unRAID « cannot create symbolic link operation not supported previous next » Send this topic Print Pages: [1] Go Down Author Topic:

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Panic! [SOLVED] need advice on howto migrate symlinks from NAS to unRAID « on: May 24, 2010, 01:44:14 AM » Hi folks,I have now build my first unRAID box (on a plus lic.) and ran http://askubuntu.com/questions/214562/cannot-transfer-file-due-to-filesystem-does-not-support-symbolic-links-error intoan issue when trying to migrate my data.I have an openfiler NAS running which I want to retire as soon asthe data has been migrated onto unRAID.Now I learned the hard way, that unRAID does not support symlinks Is there a recommended way to either- overcome the problem (i.e. while migrating - by automagicallydoubling the files instead of creating symlinks)- or to enable a symlink featureTIA,fred « Last Edit: June http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6479.0 01, 2010, 05:51:53 AM by Ford Prefect » Logged WeeboTech Global Moderator Hero Member Posts: 9340 Re: need advice on howto migrate symlinks from NAS to unRAID « Reply #1 on: May 24, 2010, 02:49:53 AM » unraid supports symlinks on the disk shares. If the links are created on the disk shares, they will be readable and accessible on the user shares.creating links on the user shares is not supported at this time. root@Atlas /mnt/disk1/boot #touch sourceroot@Atlas /mnt/disk1/boot #ln -s source destroot@Atlas /mnt/disk1/boot #ls -l source destlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 May 24 05:03 dest -> source-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 24 05:03 sourceroot@Atlas /mnt/disk1/boot #cd /mnt/user/bootroot@Atlas /mnt/user/boot #ls -l source destlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 May 24 05:03 dest -> source-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 24 05:03 sourceroot@Atlas /mnt/user/boot #echo testing >> destroot@Atlas /mnt/user/boot #ls -l source destlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 May 24 05:03 dest -> source-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 May 24 05:04 sourceroot@Atlas /mnt/user/boot #more source dest::::::::::::::source::::::::::::::testing::::::::::::::destroot@Atlas /mnt/user/boot #rm destroot@Atlas /mnt/user/boot #ln -s source destln: creating symbolic link `dest': No such file or directory « Last Edit: May 24, 2010, 03:07:32 AM by WeeboTech » Logged My Google Code Pagehttps://github.com/WeebotechIf you propose to speak, THINK and ask yourself... Is it

smb symlink asked 2015-02-19 11:53:47 +0000 Phx_01 67 ●3 ●11 ●15 updated 2015-02-19 13:48:12 +0000 mether 7023 ●41 ●67 ●111 https://fedoraproject.org... Is there a way Samba is allowing symbolic links to be transmitted as symbolic link? Whenever I https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/64034/change-smb-symlink-behavior/ try to copy a symlink, it results into an error. Nautilus states: "Symlinks not supported by backend". I have two computers (one desktop, one portable) running Fedora 21 with the same user (name and ID) and the home http://www.freefilesync.org/archive.php directory is mostly the same and use Beyond Compare to synchronize the user files (e.g. Documents) in both home directories. However, I also do have some symlinks in there, which I want to sync as symlinks. However, symbolic link neither Beyond Compare nor Nautilus are copying them over. Is there a way to configure SMB to allow symlinks to be copied as such? Searching through the man page of smb.conf did not provide me the answers I sought. edit retag flag offensive close merge delete 1 answer Sort by » oldest newest most voted 0 answered 2015-02-20 10:23:38 +0000 covex 115 ●1 ●1 ●8 There should be and options like follow symlinks = does not support yes wide links = yes in smb.conf. Just read https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch08.html edit flag offensive delete link more CommentsAccording to both, the man page of smb.conf and the link you provided, "follow symlinks" is set to "yes" by default, so specifically defining it will not change anything. Using the option "wide links" still does not show the link as a link. If it is a folder, it will show it as a folder (on one computer with no content, on the other with) and if it is a file, it is not accessible (Nautilus does not show it and Terminal shows all question marks except for the file name).Phx_01( 2015-02-21 10:49:13 +0000 )editIn the end, the "follow symlinks" and "wide links" options do exactly what is described in the man page: either follow them or produce an error. Neither option states that the symlink will be handled as a symlink.Phx_01( 2015-02-21 10:50:10 +0000 )editOf course, there is no translation of Unix symbolic links to Windows "somethinglike" link. And Samba is a Windows CIFS file system for unix. As such it can only make a file out ot unix symlink. Sorry if I missunderstood your original question.covex( 2015-02-21 17:54:11 +0000 )edit Your Answer Please start posting anonymously - your entry will be published after you log in or create a new account. Add Answer

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