Error "Unsupported operation" while creating a link

[vadhavane_anil]

Hi,
when i want to make link with another computer in lan it gives me following error

Error "Unsupported operation" while creating a link to "smb://ostech2/Ci...ail/movies_times".

please give me solution,i really need it!

Thank you in advance.

[lakerdonald]

'link' as in the sort which you make with the "ln" command?
Make sure that you are using "ln -s" to create a symbolic link, as some implementations of link() do not allow hard links to span multiple filesystems.

[vadhavane_anil]

i m trying to make link directly and not through terminal.
as i dont have exp in linux i dont know that much cmds for this task

can you tell me how i can it from terminal?

Thank You

[lakerdonald]

ln -s /path/to/destination /path/to/new/link