amd989/Symlinker

No link created (same as issue #5)

amd989 opened this issue · 3 comments

amd989 commented

Original issue 13 created by amd989 on 2013-05-23T11:44:49.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

  1. Open symlink with Symlink Creator 1.1.1.3.exe (as administrator)
  2. Try to create junction on network drive (source and destination, network drive)
  3. Says "Link successfully created" but no link was created

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected link, got nothing

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.1.1.3 windows XP Professional

Please provide any additional information below.
Tried it as well with a user with admin rights, same result

amd989 commented

Comment #1 originally posted by amd989 on 2014-07-01T00:18:51.000Z:

I had the same issue on Windows 8 (not 8.1), no link created in regular or run as admin.
If I tried to remake the link, I would get notified that it will override the existing one (though no link existed, I checked though cmd prompt).

I found another program similar to this one that could not use symbolic links, but required a download of dll files (Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Runtime Libraries).
Since I downloaded and installed the dlls, Symlinker has worked (if "Run as Administrator").

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html#download
(If link fails scroll to the bottom of the page)
vcredist_x64.exe (64-Bit) and vcredist_x86.exe (32-bit)

amd989 commented

Comment #2 originally posted by amd989 on 2014-07-01T00:19:50.000Z:

I had the same issue on Windows 8 (not 8.1), no link created in regular or run as admin.
If I tried to remake the link, I would get notified that it will overwrite the existing one (though no link existed, I checked though cmd prompt).

I found another program similar to this one that could not use symbolic links, but required a download of dll files (Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Runtime Libraries).
Since I downloaded and installed the dlls, Symlinker has worked (if "Run as Administrator").

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html#download
(If link fails scroll to the bottom of the page)
vcredist_x64.exe (64-Bit) and vcredist_x86.exe (32-bit)

amd989 commented

Hi,

This error is due to the fact directory junctions only work on local NTFS volumes, if you do a regular symlink it would work fine.

Code changes have been made to notify this to the user.