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Following a remote symbolic link via Windows Shares
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Mar 15, 202616429 viewsConfidence Score0%
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In Windows 7 X64 I have a directory C:\shares\ Which contains 2 shared folders, each of these contains a couple of hundred symlinks, mapping the contents of 4 folders spread across 4 drives. So C:\shares\documents\ contains a symlink for every document in D:\documents\, every document in E:\documen…
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Fix for: Following a remote symbolic link via Windows Shares
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AFAIK, this is impossible. Symbolic links are going to always be resolved relative to the client. You'd have to use Directory Junctions to resolve the path relative to the server. Note the SU question here. "directory junction" vs "directory symboli…
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