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!
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- 02 Jul 2020, 13:55
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Syncing WSL symbolic links
- Replies: 14
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- 02 Jul 2020, 13:41
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Syncing WSL symbolic links
- Replies: 14
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Re: Syncing WSL symbolic links
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 WS...
- 02 Jul 2020, 09:35
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Syncing WSL symbolic links
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4139
Re: Syncing WSL symbolic links
Same error unfortunately.
I can confirm the 0 size file thing is fixed.
I can confirm the 0 size file thing is fixed.
- 02 Jul 2020, 00:55
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Syncing WSL symbolic links
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4139
Re: Syncing WSL symbolic links
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...
- 01 Jul 2020, 15:04
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Syncing WSL symbolic links
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4139
Re: Syncing WSL symbolic links
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 run...
- 01 Jul 2020, 10:57
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Syncing WSL symbolic links
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4139
Re: Syncing WSL symbolic links
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 administr...
- 01 Jul 2020, 10:40
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Syncing WSL symbolic links
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4139
Re: Syncing WSL symbolic links
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 apparently ...
- 01 Jul 2020, 08:35
- Forum: Help
- Topic: Syncing WSL symbolic links
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4139
Syncing WSL symbolic links
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 de...