The release version of Win2k does not let you linkd to a UNC
pathname…however, you can linkd to a drive letter that is mapped to a UNC
pathname. So I don’t think you can do what you describe – specifically,
“map a directory on the volume on machine B to a drive on machine C” –
since the drive mapping is just for the logon…
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Rick Winter
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:42 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] RE: FSD cycles
As I recall there are other problems that were never worked out too.
For instance, create a directory on machine A and map it to a drive on
machine B. Then map a directory on the volume on machine B to a drive on
machine C. Now try and access machine C via the base of that chain. I
haven’t tried this since before W2K was released but when I did try it I was
not able to get access to machine C because the security information is not
passed through. It was problems like this and the possibilities of circular
structures that limited the exposure of mount points in W2K.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Hess [mailto:xxxxx@livevault.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:20 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] RE: FSD cycles
I seem to recall when I first started playing with mount points on W2K I was
able to do the following with 2 partitions:
On drive C:, create a directory called DriveD and map it to the root of D:
On drive D:, create a directory called DriveC and map it to the root of C:
You now have a circular directory structure!!!
Just tried it on Whistler, works there too.
/ted
From: Smith, Joel[SMTP:xxxxx@ntpsoftware.com]
Reply To: File Systems Developers
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:19 PM
To: File Systems Developers
Subject: [ntfsd] FSD cycles
It would appear that it is not possible to create cycles in a file system
directory structure. I’ve tried to do so using mount points and hard
links. Is this by design? Are file systems directory structures required
to by acyclic? Or is this just an NTFS property and othe file systems may
be different?
-Joel
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