Re: Too many level of symbolic links (still have problem with sbmfs network drives)

[Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 11:23:26 +0900
Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 15:43:55 -0500
> Philippe Debanne wrote:
> > Hello Cygwin list,
> > 
> > Since updating my Cygwin installation to the latest version, I am having 
> > the problem of  "Too many levels of symbolic links" on certain network 
> > drives, that was reported in other threads.  I tried replacing the  
> > 'cygwin1.dll' with the snapshots from 2022-02-17 and 2022-03-01 
> > (x86_64).  This did fix the link to one of the network drives, but not 
> > others.
> > 
> > The mount command in my case gives :
> > 
> > $ mount
> > D:/cygwin64/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> > D:/cygwin64/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> > D:/cygwin64 on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> > C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > D: on /cygdrive/d type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > L: on /cygdrive/l type cifs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > V: on /cygdrive/v type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > W: on /cygdrive/w type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > X: on /cygdrive/x type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > Y: on /cygdrive/y type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > Z: on /cygdrive/z type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > 
> > No problem with the local drives, and I can now go to the X: drive 
> > thanks to the recent snapshot.  But not other 'smbfs' ones :
> > 
> > $ cd Z:
> > -bash: cd: Z:: Too many levels of symbolic links
> > 
> > Any ideas what could be wrong ?  It seems to be limited to certain SAMBA 
> > shared drives.
> 
> Hmm, could you please provide the version of samba
> and hopefully smb.conf file if possible?

I cannot reproduce your problem, so more information
is required.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>