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amd989 / Symlinker

Symbolic Link Creator. GUI for mklink, Microsoft Windows symlink utility
http://amd989.github.io/Symlinker/
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Doesn't work on network drive #5

Closed amd989 closed 9 years ago

amd989 commented 9 years ago

Original issue 5 created by amd989 on 2012-03-23T12:35:13.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

  1. Open symlink
  2. Try to create junction on network drive (source and destination, network drive)
  3. Says successful but no link was created

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? expected link, got nothing

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 1.1.1.3, windows 7

Please provide any additional information below.

I also tried this with source being local and destination being network drive and it also did not work.

amd989 commented 9 years ago

Comment #1 originally posted by amd989 on 2012-04-26T09:47:44.000Z:

This is an issue on Google's end...

amd989 commented 9 years ago

Comment #2 originally posted by amd989 on 2013-11-04T13:27:59.000Z:

same

amd989 commented 9 years ago

Comment #3 originally posted by amd989 on 2014-07-01T00:29:42.000Z:

I had the same issue on Windows 8 (not 8.1), no link created in regular or run as admin. If I tried to remake the link, I would get notified that it will overwrite the existing one (though no link existed, I checked though cmd prompt).

I found another program similar to this one that could not use symbolic links, but required a download of dll files (Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Runtime Libraries). Since I downloaded and installed the dlls, Symlinker has worked (if "Run as Administrator").

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html#download (If link fails scroll to the bottom of the page) vcredist_x64.exe (64-Bit) and vcredist_x86.exe (32-bit)

amd989 commented 9 years ago

Hi,

This error is due to the fact directory junctions only work on local NTFS volumes, if you do a regular symlink it would work fine.

Code changes have been made to notify this to the user.