Windows symlink (mklink) on a FreeNAS share ?

[anankeo]

Hi,
Does FreeNAS support Windows symbolic link?
For example I'd like to do from a windows machine :
mklink \\freenas\share\link.txt \\freenas\share\file.txt
But I'm getting the error "The file or directory is not a reparse point."
So I was wondering if this was a supported operation on FreeNAS? I know I can do symbolic links from FreeNAS shell and have them followed by Windows but that's not what I want to do
Thank you

 

[dlavigne]

Which version of FreeNAS (from System -> Information)? Which version of Windows? What are the settings on the SMB share?

 

[anankeo]

FreeNAS version is : FreeNAS-9.10.2-U2
Windows machine is a windows 7 SP2
The checked SMB options are :
- Apply Default Permissions
- Browsable to Network Clients
- VFS Objects: stream_xattr, aio_pthread

 

[anankeo]

Ok, after further research looks like samba does not support windows symlinks..

 

[lukeren]

Symbolic links in Windows is actually an NTFS feature called junctions, that's why it won't work.
You can however create junctions on NTFS disks pointing to your FreeNAS: