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Mount a SAMBA share and create symbolic link

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Mar 15, 202654399 views
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I develop web-apps using ubuntu (jaunty) but have a need to work on a site that must be hosted on windows. I've setup virtualbox with a winxp32 installation and shared the entire hard disk. My goal is to be able to use eclipse(pdt) in ubuntu to create a new php project that references my wwwroot fo…

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Fix for: Mount a SAMBA share and create symbolic link

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You can't symlink a network share like that. Symlinks only work between files/directories on the same computer (and hardlinks are even more restrictive - they need to be on the same filesystem/partition). First make sure the smbfs package is install…

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