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Indeed, it appears so, at least until WSL symlinks can be created on mounted network drives. Well that's a topic for the WSL/Windows teams - I'll try and find a place to ask about it.

Thanks so much for all the time looking into this & setting up the beta builds!
Very much appreciated!

I tried and have not been able to.

What I did precisely: on local machine PC1, mount remote drive with:
$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\PC2\WSL_home\' /mnt/rhome -o metadata,uid=1001,gid=1001
$ cd /mnt/rhome
(permissions/ownership etc look correct, I can create files & directory, and follow existing WSL ...

Same error unfortunately.

I can confirm the 0 size file thing is fixed.

Thanks a lot for looking into this.

It seems to work perfectly if the pair are local drives (running FFS with no admin rights).

Unfortunately, not the case if the destination is a shared drive (regardless of running FFS with admin rights & having symlink creation allowed or not on remote machine ...

Apologies for replying to self again.

In case it's useful to anyone, I managed to make things work with my setup by:

- (to parse the WSL symlinks: ) using the FFS 10.26 beta

- (to allow FFS to create Windows symlinks on "local" PC1: ) running FFS as administrator on PC1

. (to allow FFS running ...

Actually one thing that's a bit unexpected is that the sync'ed links do not appear to be created as WSL reparse points.

In my local drive to local drive sync experiment, I also needed to be administrator for things to work (otherwise FFS protests with same above error), and once running as ...

Thank you for the incredibly quick response!

And the beta version solves the parsing issue perfectly!
I could verify that everything works as intended if the destination is a local drive.

Unfortunately I still could not get it to work over network shares, even when running as admin, as I ...

I am on Windows and have started using WSL2 + Ubuntu.

I have tried to use FreeFileSync from Windows for sync'ing my WSL home between computers (home directory shared as WSL_home, and FFS pair = \\PC1\WSL_home , \\PC2\WSL_home).
For the most part it works superbly, carrying over the meta data that ...