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alllanca
Contributor
Contributor

Relative symlinks on shared folders fail in Ubuntu 12.04

I just upgraded my guest from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04. I've been using symlinks in shared folders for a while and never had any problem with them. In ubuntu 12.04, relative symlinks stopped working, though absolute symlinks work fine.

For example:

/mnt/hgfs/ltd/node_modules/ltd -> ../lib

doesn't work

But,

/mnt/hgfs/ltd/node_modules/ltd -> /mnt/hgfs/ltd/lib

works fine.

Anyone have any experience with this, work arounds, or suggestions on what could have changed?

Host is OS X 10.7.5.

Thanks!

-Allan

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steve_goddard
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Hi there,

I hope you get this update.

There has been a longstanding bug in the Shared Folders Linux client kernel driver.

I have now fixed this and it is in Fusion 6 coming out shortly.

I will try to get the fix backported to the current supported releases.

Thanks

Thanks. Steve
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