Linking to smbmount into context classes directory

[Luc Foisy <Lu...@technical-magic.com>]

 
We are mounting a windows share onto a RedHat box, trying to symlink it in multiple context WEB-INF/classes directories
It was working for us with tomcat 4, but can not get it to work right with tomcat 5
 
The smb mount:(not quite sure if its alright to have it here, but thats where it was put)
/home/tomcat/webapp/mount/tmc2ksbs/smbmountpoint
 
The context:
/home/tomcat/webapp/crm
 
We are using the following to create the link to the mount:
ln -s /home/tomcat/webapps/mount/tmc2ksbs/smbmountpoint /home/tomcat/webapps/crm/WEB-INF/classes
 
When trying to access the context are crm, can not compile jsps because packages in the classes directory can not be found.
 
This is the context xml in /home/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/
        <Context
                className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext"
                cachingAllowed="false"
                charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper"
                cookies="true"
                crossContext="false"
                debug="0"
                docBase="crm"
                mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper"
                path="/crm"
                privileged="false"
                reloadable="false"
                swallowOutput="true"
                useNaming="true"
                wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper">
          <Logger
                className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
                debug="0"
                directory="logs"
                prefix="crm_log."
                suffix=".txt"
                timestamp="true"
                verbosity="1"
          />
          <Resources
                className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
                allowLinking="true"
                docBase=""
                />
        </Context>
 
We were assuming the allowLinking was what was letting us do this with tomcat 4, since I believe the documentation read that you needed this to allow sym linking to other places.
 
Anyone have some marvelous insight they could offer?
 
Luc