{"id":415,"date":"2009-06-16T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/2009\/06\/16\/how-to-create-a-real-working-symbolic-link-in-windows\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T22:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:12:02","slug":"how-to-create-a-real-working-symbolic-link-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/how-to-create-a-real-working-symbolic-link-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a real working symbolic link in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very used to unix systems and there it is very common to use symbolic links. Say you mount another machine at \/machine2 but want to access some files from it in your home directory on that machine but have them in the home directory on this machine. Just use ln, ln -s \/machine2\/home\/user\/file \/home\/user\/file and there is no difference in using file on any machine. This has not been possible in Windows until Vista was released!<\/p>\n<p>Another way to explain it is it is possible to map a remote folder not just into a drive(e.g. Z:) but also onto a folder!<\/p>\n<p>The solution is the new mklink command, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.techrepublic.com.com\/5100-10878_11-6177180.html\">this article<\/a> explains well how to use it!<!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:right;\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/vista\" rel=\"tag\">vista<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/symboliclink\" rel=\"tag\">symboliclink<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very used to unix systems and there it is very common to use symbolic links. Say you mount another machine at \/machine2 but want to access some files from it in your home directory on that machine but have them in the home directory on this machine. Just use ln, ln -s \/machine2\/home\/user\/file \/home\/user\/file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yelloworb.com\/orbblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}