A baffling one, this one. I'm trying to create some symbolic links in a shared folder on my C drive, to folders on D:\, so I can access them on my NMT media player.
I used a little program called DirLinker to create the links, but while this works fine locally, and my NMT can see the links there as folders, it can't access them. I thought it could be a peculiarity of the NMT, but my girlfriend's laptop, running Vista, can't access them either.
So I tried using the mklink /j command line, which worked for one folder, but won't work for any others. I can make a new link with a different name for that same folder, but not a link for any other folder.
I've tried running the command line as administrator, but this doesn't seem make it work, and besides my user account is an administrator anyway.
I can't for the life of me figure out why this should be. Does anybody know of anything in Windows' network configuration which would cause problems with symbolic links? Or, conversely, is there something special that needs to be done when creating a symbolic link to ensure it can be shared over a Microsoft network?
I used a little program called DirLinker to create the links, but while this works fine locally, and my NMT can see the links there as folders, it can't access them. I thought it could be a peculiarity of the NMT, but my girlfriend's laptop, running Vista, can't access them either.
So I tried using the mklink /j command line, which worked for one folder, but won't work for any others. I can make a new link with a different name for that same folder, but not a link for any other folder.
I've tried running the command line as administrator, but this doesn't seem make it work, and besides my user account is an administrator anyway.
I can't for the life of me figure out why this should be. Does anybody know of anything in Windows' network configuration which would cause problems with symbolic links? Or, conversely, is there something special that needs to be done when creating a symbolic link to ensure it can be shared over a Microsoft network?