Is there support for symbolic links (sym links) for cifs?

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Issue

  • When attemping to create symbolic links on a filesystem mounted as cifs,  the following may appear:
    ln: creating symbolic link `test' to `test.txt': Operation not supported
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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