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Ian W
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15th Jan 12 at 23:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Wondering if anyone here can help.

I need to make some symbolic links on my NAS but the mklink command won't let me do it as far as I can tell as its a mapped drive and not local, it fails with..

"The file or directorty is not a reparse point"

Any idea's on this? Do the googling thing but not coming up with much..
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/afb904c1-1c61-4aae-b6b1-5cf525b9f8de

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Try mapping the network shares using subst and that will show them similar to a localdrive then do your mklink to that
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subst just creates a shortcut almost...?
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Subst maps a network share and makes it appear as a local drive, mklink will ne happier dealing with it as a local drive I would think

[Edited on 16-01-2012 by Steve]
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Won't be indexed though so mklink won't work.

Plus subst doesn't do that in Win7
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No idea not used it since winxp.
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Thanks for the idea's, i'll have a go when I get home.
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Just had a butchers on a 7 laptop out of interest and subst does indeed do the same as it did in xp.
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Won't mklink though still Stevie boy, mklink in 7 requires indexing.

[Edited on 17-01-2012 by pow]
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Yes i agree, not sure that error relates to indexing though, i think it may have been having problems with it being a network drive, but your right it would eventually have refused due to indexing

 
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