Doesn't work on network drive

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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.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tonygre...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2012 at 12:35

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

Original comment by razvan.r...@gmail.com on 26 Apr 2012 at 9:47

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same

Original comment by somnuk...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2013 at 1:27

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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)

Original comment by dragonsb...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2014 at 12:29

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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.

Original comment by mora.dia...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2015 at 12:42

• Changed state: Fixed