[NTLUG:Discuss] Links and Mounts

[Michael Barnes]

I have a problem with soft links and nfs mounts.  I know the problem, I 
just can't find a way around it.

I have two servers, one is the main Samba file server (Server02), the 
other is a server that is part of another system (SysServ).  I have a 
folder on SysServ that is shared between system workstations and office 
workstations.  The file is /home/system/traffic_import.  On system 
workstations, I have in fstab:

SysServ:/home/system/traffic_import /home/system/traffic_import  nfs 
defaults 0 0

These are all Linux workstations and everything works fine.
On Server02, fstab contains:

SysServ:/home/system/traffic_import 
/shares/snat/Departments/TRAFFIC/traffic_import  nfs  defaults 0 0

Also on the System02 server in the /shares folder is a softlink:

TRAFFIC -> /shares/snat/Departments/TRAFFIC

When the appropriate users log in, they are mapped to /shares/TRAFFIC

Here's the problem.  If I go into (ssh) Server02 as a user and do 'll 
/shares/snat/Departments/TRAFFIC/traffic_import' I can see the files in 
the folder that is on SysServ.  However, a network user logging into the 
system can see all the files on TRAFFIC, but when they go into 
TRAFFIC\traffic_import, they do not see the files on SysServ, but the 
files that were in the traffic_import folder native on Server02.

So, how do I get users to see the mounted folder traffic_import?

Thanks for any ideas.

Michael