Attempting to create symlinks on CIFS mounted shares results in "Operation not supported" error
Issue
- Cannot create a symlink on
CIFSmounted share, for example:
[example@hatsune ~]$ ln -s miku.file miku.link
ln: creating symbolic link `miku.link': Operation not supported
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- CIFS clients
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