Same folder on 2 drives 1

[cheer8923]

I've heard that it's possible to create symlink in Vista/7.

Under XP, is there any way to do the following:

C:\Photo is where the actual folder resides

I would also want to access it via M:\Photo

There is no drive under the letter M: so I'd have to create one first.

I know one easy way out is use subst to map c: to m:. However, I'd prefer only a few folders show up under m:.

Any way to achieve this?

Thanks!

 

[smah]

You're on the right track.

Step 1. Create a folder to wherever convenient (in the root of the C: drive maybe) to act as the new drive letter and name it something like driveM. Then use the subst command to substitute it as a drive letter. subst M: c:\driveM

Step 2. Create Junction points in C:\driveM that point to whatever folders you want to see in drive M. The official way to create & modify junction points is using the linkd.exe command

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524

but better is to use the Sysinterals Junction utility

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

 

[cheer8923]

Worked nicely. Thanks a lot!

Is there any way that I can hide the real path? This way I can almost pretend that the 2 machines have the same drives and paths.

Thanks!

 

[smah]

I can't think of any way to hide the real (C:\driveM) path, if that's what you're referring to.

 

[BadBigBen]

There is another way to do that, in using an elevated command window, then type:

mklink /d c:\photo m:\photo

NTFS symbolic link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

Ben
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[smah]

Ben, mklink is not available in XP. Nor is elevation ;-)

 

[kjv1611]

This is new to me, I think. I can recall mapping network drives, but this sounds a bit different, and very interesting. One more thing to read up on, try out, I s'ppose.

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[BadBigBen]

Smah, you are right, sorry about that, I read Vista/7 and missed the XP part...



Ben
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[danomac]

Won't an NTFS junction point work here? There are some caveats from using them (as in deleting a junction point can erase all of the files where it points, so it's not completely symbolic.) I've used them in the past and as long as you remove the delete permission from the junction point itself it should work in XP. I think the command to create them was linkd, but be careful removing them.

 

[smah]

We are talking about NTFS junction points, and linkd was discussed earlier in this thread and included a reference to how it is used.

 

[danomac]

Whoops! I see that now. I gotta stop posting at the end of the day.

 

[cheer8923]

I've got junction running on XP. thanks