NTFS Hardlink to UNC Path

[Guest Kristian Oye]

I worked as a peon at Microsoft for a couple of years and I *swear* I

remember a utility (I thought it was called XLINK32 or something) that

allowed you to create an NTFS hardlink to a remote UNC path. Is there

a way to create a link to a remote file so that it appears to be local

on a machine?

 

e.g.

D:\ftpserver\userfs\username\latestdata.zip -> \\backupserver\backups

\username\data20080514.zip

 

Thanks in advance!

-Kristian Oye

[Guest Tim Slattery]

Re: NTFS Hardlink to UNC Path

 

Kristian Oye <kristianoye@gmail.com> wrote:

>I worked as a peon at Microsoft for a couple of years and I *swear* I

>remember a utility (I thought it was called XLINK32 or something) that

>allowed you to create an NTFS hardlink to a remote UNC path. Is there

>a way to create a link to a remote file so that it appears to be local

>on a machine?

>

>e.g.

>D:\ftpserver\userfs\username\latestdata.zip -> \\backupserver\backups

>\username\data20080514.zip

 

I find a "junction" program for making symbolic links here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

 

Google turns up nothing for xlink32 or xlink.

 

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Tim Slattery

MS MVP(Shell/User)

Slattery_T@bls.gov

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