DokanSSHFS symbolic link support

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DokanSSH symbolic support

Original issue reported on code.google.com by asa...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2008 at 3:05

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Original comment by asa...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2008 at 3:05

• Changed title: DokanSSHFS symbolic link support

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This would rate that higher!

Original comment by hdzi...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2009 at 1:28

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This would indeed be pretty interesting to have...
but it also opens some questions as to "how" this support should be 
implemented/presented...

now it could be to present the link as a "shortcut" (.lnk) file,... but this 
solution 
would probably render stuff needlessly complex.

the (symbolic) links could also be presented as "hardlinks" instead,... with 
over-
filesystem-support,... so the link is presented as the file/dir it points to.  
removing (over sshfs) this link... could remove the link.  
One could check with samba implementation on how this problem is resolved... 
for 
instance I believe there was an option for smbd that would - when smb-client 
was 
adjusting a "linked" file - to copy target file to link-file location, and 
replace 
link with that adjusted copy,... 

Original comment by ddeme...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2009 at 8:40

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Vista and higher support symbolic links on NTFS, this might be possible for 
Dokan too?
(although it needs to gracefully degrade on <Vista)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

Original comment by nathan.z...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2009 at 1:56

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I think this is a priority enhancement, right now I can't use DokanSSHFS in my 
work because of this problem, I have to look at other options like NetDrive 
over FTP.

The hardlink presentation sounds good, though, maybe it could be presented as 
Junctions, which are the closest to sym links in Windows. 

Original comment by elgeorg...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2010 at 12:29

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Not using DokanSSHFS for symlink lack

Original comment by par...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2010 at 7:02

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sshfs has "-o follow_symlinks".
Why can't we?

DokanSSHFS is rather useless to me without this feature.
I guess I'm going back to using filezilla and X over ssh with putty. :/

Original comment by Clayton....@gmail.com on 19 Dec 2011 at 5:01

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Perhaps Cygwin's method of handling symlinks on Windows could be used:

https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks

Original comment by joseph.c...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2015 at 4:00