I knew about junctions, and indeed they are lame. The new tool is 'mklink' and its links are different: "Unlike a NTFS junction point <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point> (available since Windows 2000), a symbolic link can also point to a file or remote SMB <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block> network path."
So give it another look if you want that functionality. I know I'll use it sooner rather than later. -Matt Greg Bowersock wrote: > I've played around with those a little, and they are closer to > hard-links, and don't work very well. The support is also in Windows > 2003 Server, which is where I tried it. Windows calls them Junctions, > and there are some free tools out there that will create them for you. > Granted I was trying to map a network drive (from an NTFS share) and > create a junction to that drive, and that doesn't work at all. It is > supposed to work with local disks though, so if you are doing things > that way you will be fine. As you know the nice thing about Linux is > that you can create a soft-link to a samba/cifs/nfs mounted directory > with no problems at all. If Windows would figure out how to do that it > would be nice. > > Greg > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Matthew Chambers > <matthew.chamb...@vanderbilt.edu > <mailto:matthew.chamb...@vanderbilt.edu>> wrote: > > > Somewhat off-topic, I learned yesterday that NTFS supports symbolic > links starting with Vista: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link > > -Matt > > Greg Bowersock wrote: > > if you are using windows, you won't be able to use the > soft-links, so > > that will require some changes also. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to spctools-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to spctools-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
