Symbolic Links and DFS

Liquidfox · 17 May 2012 at 16:11

Afternoon,

I'm in the middle of a server install whereby i'm migrating a DOS-based database which was created 26 years ago (Older than me!). Now it's a simple copy and paste of the data itself, however the program is hard-coded to look for it's data at C:\Smart\. The data is now residing on their server, with a mapped drive: W:\Smart

With Windows 7 machines i've used mklink /d c:\smart\ w:\smart\ and it's done the trick fine, however there's some XP machines which this command won't work with. I'm not too clued up on this subject, but I believe DFS may be the solution here?

Does anybody have any tips on how to set his up? They're using SBS 2011 as their main server.

mrbios · 17 May 2012 at 17:06

This any use to you:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ ?

Might enable you to use symbolic links on XP that way and keeping an (almost) standard way of doing it. Used DFS on quite a few occasions but never quite like that so couldn't help you on that front.

Liquidfox · 17 May 2012 at 22:00

You are a legend my friend. If it works just like the Windows 7 version, that's my life made so much easier!

Liquidfox · 22 May 2012 at 13:21

Unfortunately this didn't work quite as expected. It would have worked fine if the files that needed the symbolic link creating were local, but they're stored on a network

The smart mirror and smart copy options just seem to create a copy, which would be fine, but they don't keep it updated, it seems to be just a one-time copy and paste job somehow.