I have an NTFS external USB drive that I sometimes attach to an (old) Windows XP box that has Cygwin installed, and other times I attach it to an Ubuntu box. I made a bunch of symlinks in Cygwin on XP but when I look at them on Ubuntu they are just small regular files. So my first question is basically this: What are you guys doing to deal with this kind of issue? It would be best if I could make symlinks that just worked in Linux and Windows. Can that be done? Can working symlinks be created in either system that will work in both systems? I know that XP is old and retired, so feel free to answer in terms of Windows 7 and newer, if newer versions are different. Thanks in advance! Mike