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Creating a symbolic link to mapped network drive in Windows

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Mar 15, 2026276753 views
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Problem

I am having an issue creating a symbolic link on Windows 7 Ultimate. I want to map a folder from a mapped network drive into My Documents. returns . is set to be available offline, but I am online when I am trying this. This is what I've tried (as suggested here): Using Local Security Policy to add my user to Local Polices\User Rights Assignments\Create symbolic links, and rebooting. No luck. Running cmd.exe as an Administrator, but then I cannot see the mapped network drive at all. I can however create symbolic links on the drive. Using to change , to set (even though it seem to me I want , which is already enabled). Using full UNC path of the shared folder does not work either ( when run as an administrator, when run as a normal user). Output of : Any ideas?

Error Output

C:\Windows\system32>fsutil behavior query symlinkevaluation
Local to local symbolic links are enabled.
Local to remote symbolic links are enabled.
Remote to local symbolic links are enabled.
Remote to remote symbolic links are disabled.

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Fix for: Creating a symbolic link to mapped network drive in Windows

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Run cmd as administrator and use UNC path. The following command worked for me as administrator: And also check whether your command contains appropriate quotes ( ).

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