I think upon login, users are put in a chroot jail. you can't symlink out of a chroot area no matter who sets up the link! might look into chroot cells and if ProFTP is using it.... I was able to use loopback mounts once to do what you did... I'd have to dig a bit to find my doc - if you'd like... (I think I was using wuftp....) On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:57:22 -0500, Carl Lindgren <devel_support at crlc.net> wrote: > I maybe just missing something here but... > > I have an Intranet server setup for anonymous FTP using ProFTP and I > administer/configure it using Webmin 1.0. I want to be able to use a > symlink > to add a directory that is located on another partition/disk. When I add > a > symlinked directory to the FTP tree, the clients returns [Alert 550 > /mydirectory: No such file or directory]. I'm sure its just something > simple > but its escaping me at the moment. > > Can someone give me a clue of what is wrong and where to look/add with > the > configuration settings. > > Thanks, > Carl Lindgren > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list