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Hi, I have a DNS-32 NAS drive with 2 volumes - one used for backup in a RAID 0 configuration and the other is just for media files, and I have my UPnP server pointed at its root.

I decided to backup my photos and music collection, so I copied them to volume 1. But since I wanted them exposed to the UPnP server, I figured all I need is a symbolic link from volume 2 to volume 1 (rather than keeping 2 copies of the data, one on each volume).

Good idea, right? Wrong! The UPnP server scans all files but ignores the symbolic links and the files they point to. I ssh'd in, verified that the links belong to the same user and group that the other folders belong to, and that they are rwxrwxrwx - so I don't think it's a permissions issue.

I always thought a symbolic link is transparent to applications (i.e., it sees it as the real directory pointed to). Am I wrong? Is there anything I can do, or is it an intrinsic behavior of the server?

Thanks! Guy

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