No link created (same as issue #5)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open symlink with Symlink Creator 1.1.1.3.exe (as administrator)
2. Try to create junction on network drive (source and destination, network 
drive)
3. Says "Link successfully created" 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 XP Professional

Please provide any additional information below.
Tried it as well with a user with admin rights, same result

Original issue reported on code.google.com by egijo...@hotmail.com on 23 May 2013 at 11:44

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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 12:19

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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 2:18

• Changed state: Fixed