Using FC7, recent yum update, on a dual boot laptop, I have a soft link to a directory that is available only via a cifs mount. When mounted, the link was created with: ln -s /mnt/target/dir1/dir2/file theLink When when the cifs is unmounted, I expect theLink to blink red. It does this for: ls theLink ll theLink but not for: ls * in the directory that contains theLink. A bug? Mike.