Symbolic link to external server

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> Op 30 jul. 2021, om 14:32 heeft Jos Chrispijn <bsduser at cloudzeeland.nl> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> I have a NAS that I access with wind* network clients by calling \\10.10.10.55\myfiles (1)
> My BSD server 10.10.10.5 has a directory /mydocs (2)
> Is it possible to create a symbolic link in (2) to directory (1)?
> I tried, but got stuck as I do realize that a user validation should be done prior to be able to use the symlink.
> 
> 

Hi Jos,

I do exactly the same, by mounting the smb share of my nas under a folder somewhere in my freeBSD tree.

@mount -t smbfs //user at 10.10.20.55 <mailto:user at 10.10.20.55>/files /mydocs

And the credentials for the user are in /etc/nsmb.conf



Peter

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