I am using my unRAID as a media server to toss up ISOs to my PopcornHour.  I have put the ISOs in alphabetical dirs, but I want to create symlinks in Genre dirs.

 

Here is the command I am using:

 

ln -s filename_in_alphabet_dir.ISO ../_Genre/Comedy/filename_in_alphabet_dir.ISO

 

I get back "function not implemented".

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Alternatively, is there a way I can create symlinks from Windows Explorer?  (This CLI stuff is a bit tedious for this use.)

 

SirWired

 

The user share does not support creating symlinks directly on it.

example:

 

root@unraid /mnt #cd /mnt/user

root@unraid /mnt/user #ls -l rsync*

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 45 Apr 23  2008 rsync.sh*

root@unraid /mnt/user #ln -s rsync.sh rsync.x

ln: creating symbolic link `rsync.x': Function not implemented

 

 

However it will read them if they are created on the /mnt/disk? mount point directly.

See example:

root@unraid /mnt/user #cd /mnt/disk1

root@unraid /mnt/disk1 #ln -s rsync.sh rsync.x

root@unraid /mnt/disk1 #ls -l rsync.*

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 45 Apr 23  2008 rsync.sh*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  8 Feb  1 16:54 rsync.x -> rsync.sh*

root@unraid /mnt/disk1 #cd /mnt/user

root@unraid /mnt/user #ls -l rsync*

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 45 Apr 23  2008 rsync.sh*

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 45 Apr 23  2008 rsync.x*

Therefore if you created a set of genre directories on each disk share and did the symlink on the disk share it would work.

 

Here's one way to do it.

 

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos #ls -l

total 2807619

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2872195072 Apr 12  2008 DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root        128 May 24  2008 TV/

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos #mkdir -p /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos #cd      /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries #ln -s ../../DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO .

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries #ls -l

total 0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Feb  1 17:01 DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO -> ../../DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries #cd /mnt/user/Videos/

root@unraid /mnt/user/Videos #ls -l

total 2807619

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2872195072 Apr 12  2008 DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root        128 May 24  2008 TV/

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root        80 Feb  1 17:01 _Genre/

root@unraid /mnt/user/Videos #cd _Genre/Documentaries/

root@unraid /mnt/user/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries #ls -l

total 2807619

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2872195072 Apr 12  2008 DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO

 

 

Another way is to use full path names.

 

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries #ln -vs /mnt/disk1/Videos/DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries/

`/mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries/DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO' -> `/mnt/disk1/Videos/DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO'

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries #ls -l

total 0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Feb  1 17:03 DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO -> /mnt/disk1/Videos/DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries #cd /mnt/user/Videos/ 

DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO  TV/                  _Genre/             

root@unraid /mnt/disk1/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries #ls -l /mnt/user/Videos/_Genre/Documentaries/

total 2807619

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2872195072 Apr 12  2008 DEATH_OF_A_STAR.ISO

 

 

Hope this helps.