FTP and Symbolic links

[jjones]

I have an old computer running a Samba to serve some shared files. I want to run an FTP server as well to serve the same shared directory. I put a symbolic link to the directory /shared in /var/ftp, but when I try to access the directory via ftp it won't change. When I do ls -l it shows the link to the directory with the proper permissions. Can anyone help me set this up so that I don't need to have two copies of the files on my server.

[lakerdonald]

Why don't you just have the samba server share the same directory as the ftp server does?

[scottro]

I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, however, at one point, setting up pure-ftpd on FreeBSD, I found that if I did something like

ln -s ../share

It didn't work. However, if I typed the full path, eg

ln -s /usr/ftpusers/share

It worked. <shrug>

[jjones]

Why don't you just have the samba server share the same directory as the ftp server does?

The samba server is already setup and running, so I figured it would be easier if possible to use a sym link. If not then that is what I will have to do.