Thread: Trouble with symlinks

i running ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope. have 2 40gb drives.
drive 1, /dev/sda2 has / (root) mounted on it. drive 2, has generic /data partition it. use drive 2 store music (really media)library "/data/music". added bunch of audio books last week , have become dangerously low on space (<500mb).
drive 1 has gobs of space on it. got idea of creating directory on drive 1, "/more music" , move audio books there , create symlinks them. once had

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/data/music/audiobooks/...

i have

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/data/music/audiobooks -> /more music/audiobooks/

as root, created symlink in following manner:

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ln -s /more\ music/audiobooks/ /data/music/audiobooks

and ls -l /data/music/|grep -i audiobooks yields following:

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lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root       23 2010-08-25 09:45 audiobooks -> /more music/audiobooks/

as regular user can navigate /data/music/audiobooks , view contents , seems well.
problem having /data being served windows share via samba. can on /data fine windows pcs, except /data/music/audiobooks. when try access itunes (or other program) "z:\music\audiobooks not accessable. access denied."
permissions thing or wrong in way created symlink?

code:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root       23 2010-08-25 09:45 /data/music/audiobooks -> /more music/audiobooks/  drwxrwxrwx   3 root root 4.0k 2010-08-25 09:43 /more music  drwxrwxrwx 3 cmfarley cmfarley 4.0k 2010-08-14 14:42 /more music/audiobooks

any suggestions?

windows doesn't support symlinks.

try sharing /more music folder (right click -> sharing options)

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