Bug #3033 symbolic link to a distant machine

• Submitted: 2 Mar 2004 1:26
• Modified: 3 Mar 2004 6:02
• Reporter: Mickael Besson
• Status: Not a Bug
• Category: MySQL Server: Installing
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.0.0
• OS: Windows (Windows NT4)
• CPU Architecture: Any

[2 Mar 2004 1:26] Mickael Besson

Description:

Hello,

Symbolic links functions on local machine.

And I tried to create symbolic link to a distant machine like this :
- create a network connection on this machine (example : u:\ on windows explorer)
- put a database on u:\ (ex : test_u)
- create a .sym file in mysql data directory with this content : U:\test_u

But It doesn't work.

I also tried to give the ip machine like this : \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\test_u or the name machine.
It doesn't work too.

Is it normal ?

Thank you

How to repeat:
As it's describe above

[3 Mar 2004 5:41] Mickael Besson

I found the answer : to reboot the machine. It works now.