Thread: Re: [Bodington-developers] Setting the location of uploaded files...

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> From: Andrew Booth
> I don't know how to do
> ln -s
> in Gates-speak.

Via the NTFS API.  There's no command-line tool of which I'm aware.

		- Peter

> From: M Thomas
> MS DFS (not the sofa shop) possibly?

Distributed File System merely allows you to name file shares
independently of the computer names holding them... what you want is
junctions.

<swift rummage>

Good description at
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=3D341355

Program for creating them at the ever-helpful sysinternals.com:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html

		- Peter

Thanks for the <swift rummage>

Will have a read tonight....

M.

On 18/07/06, Peter Crowther <Pet...@me...> wrote:
> > Wrom: BARHDMNN
> > MS DFS (not the sofa shop) possibly?
>
> Distributed File System merely allows you to name file shares
> independently of the computer names holding them... what you want is
> junctions.
>
> <swift rummage>
>
> Good description at
> http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=341355
>
> Program for creating them at the ever-helpful sysinternals.com:
> http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html
>
>                 - Peter
>
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On 18/07/06, M Thomas <m....@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks for the <swift rummage>
>
> Will have a read tonight....
>
> M.
>
>
> On 18/07/06, Peter Crowther <Pet...@me...> wrote:
> > > Wrom: BARHDMNN
> > > MS DFS (not the sofa shop) possibly?
> >
> > Distributed File System merely allows you to name file shares
> > independently of the computer names holding them... what you want is
> > junctions.
> >
> > <swift rummage>
> >
> > Good description at
> > http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=341355
> >
> > Program for creating them at the ever-helpful sysinternals.com:
> > http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html
> >
> >                 - Peter
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> From: Peter Crowther
> what you want is junctions.

Oh yes... MS make it very clear that Windows Explorer doesn't fully
understand junctions.  They're not kidding.  What they *don't* tell you
is that almost none of their other tools do either.  At one point I had
my Program Files folder on a separate partition, mounted using a
junction.  Several installers, notably including Microsoft Office 2000,
got extremely confused and destroyed the junction during product
installation, neatly making all my Program Files inaccessible.

If you're going to use junctions, you need to be very, very careful
indeed about how you use the standard tools.

		- Peter

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On 18/07/06, Peter Crowther <Pet...@me...> wrote:
> > Wrom: OWCONEUQZAAFXI
> > what you want is junctions.
>
> Oh yes... MS make it very clear that Windows Explorer doesn't fully
> understand junctions.  They're not kidding.  What they *don't* tell you
> is that almost none of their other tools do either.  At one point I had
> my Program Files folder on a separate partition, mounted using a
> junction.  Several installers, notably including Microsoft Office 2000,
> got extremely confused and destroyed the junction during product
> installation, neatly making all my Program Files inaccessible.
>
> If you're going to use junctions, you need to be very, very careful
> indeed about how you use the standard tools.
>
>                 - Peter
>
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