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[Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar+bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I try from the terminal:

$ ln -s File File2
ln: creating symbolic link `File2': Operation not supported

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Title:
  cannot create symlinks on smb share mounted with gvfs

Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I mount an smb share with gvfs (e.g. through Nautilus), I expect
  that symlinks can be created on that filesystem. This is possible if I
  use "mount -t cifs" instead, but that is a more manual and less
  flexible process that should not be necessary.

  To reproduce:
  1. in Nautilus, mount an smb/cifs share with "smb://<address>"
  2. right-click a file/directory in the nautilus view
  3. from the context menu, pick "Make Link"

  Expected behaviour:
  A link to the selected file/directory should be created, as would occur on a local ext4 filesystem

  Actual behaviour:
  I get an error saying "The target doesn't support symbolic links".

  My guess is that this is because gvfs' smb implementation doesn't
  implement the kind of UNIX extensions that the Samba cifs client uses.

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