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Redirecting a folder on a network share

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yogi71

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Apr 5, 2013
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I either haven't been able to figure out the right combo of search words, or no one has ever asked this.

I have a network share on my Windows server that all users are mapping as their S drive.
On the "S drive" is a folder called "workspace" and about a dozen other folders.
The "workspace" folder is being moved to a new server due to the demand on the contents of that folder.
The problem is we have an application that looks to s:\workspace for its configuration.
We don't want to have to go to every user and reconfigure their application, we'd prefer to create, for lack of better description, a "link folder" that points to the new network share location.

The original thought was create a shortcut mapped to \\newserver\workspace

But the application does not view this as a folder, but rather a file, and therefor does not follow it to the new location.

Is there a way to force this "folder" to be redirected to \\newserver\workspace so that the application doesn't notice the new location?

 
Thanks 58sniper, I was unaware of that ability in Windows.
However, this doesn't help me. This command will only allow links on the same machine, different volume.

My scenario is:
Server A has existing folder "workspace"
Server B has been setup to have "workspace" moved onto it.
I need a link on Server A to point to "\\Server B\workspace
 
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