{"id":957,"date":"2010-03-13T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T09:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/957"},"modified":"2011-05-27T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T14:33:22","slug":"windows-7-create-a-directory-symbolic-link-to-a-network-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/957","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7: Create a directory symbolic link to a network share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Windows7Createadirectorysymboliclinktoan_117D7\/image.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"244\" height=\"120\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc753194(WS.10).aspx#iframe\" target=\"_blank\">Mklink<\/a> allows you to create a symbolic link to a directory or a file. This was a long-waited feature for Windows and available on unix\/linux based systems.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Vista introduced this new feature and with Windows 7 we can utilize this now in more depth with the libraries. Make sure you started a evaluated command prompt otherwise you will get the following message:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>How to start evaluated command prompt (cmd.exe)?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Click the<strong> Start<\/strong> button<\/li>\n<li>In the search box, type <strong>cmd<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hold CRTL and SHIFT; in the list of results, click <strong>cmd<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>UAC will kick and click <strong>Yes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I want to create a directory symbolic link to a network share located on <a href=\"file:\/\/\\\\IP\\Share\">\\\\IP\\Share<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to create a directory symbolic link to a network share?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>mklink local_dir \\\\ip or servername\\sharename \/d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before we can continue we need to connect to the IPC$ share otherwise the action will fail. The share is located on the NAS without guest permissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mklink allows you to create a symbolic link to a directory or a file. This was a long-waited feature for Windows and available on unix\/linux based systems. Windows Vista introduced this new feature and with Windows 7 we can utilize this now in more depth with the libraries. Make sure you started a evaluated command prompt otherwise you will get the following message: You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation. How to start evaluated command prompt (cmd.exe)? Click the Start button In the search box, type cmd Hold CRTL and SHIFT; in the list of results, click cmd UAC will kick and click Yes I want to create a directory symbolic link to a network share located on \\\\IP\\Share. How to create a directory symbolic link to a network share? mklink local_dir \\\\ip or servername\\sharename \/d Before we can continue we need to connect to the IPC$ share otherwise the action will fail. The share is located on the NAS without guest permissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[576,807],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-7","tag-mklink","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}