Comments on: My favourite Vista tricks and tweaks http://egilhansen.com/2007/12/24/my-favourite-vista-tricks-and-tweaks/ .NET, Windows, ASP.Net, scripts Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:44:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Egil Hansen http://egilhansen.com/2007/12/24/my-favourite-vista-tricks-and-tweaks/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Egil Hansen Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:32:34 +0000 http://www.egil.dk/1999/11/30/my-favourite-vista-tricks-and-tweaks/#comment-42 Hi Eric Junctions have indeed existed for quite a while, however, symbolic links are certainly new to Vista (and probably Server 2008). Here's a snippet from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link" title="Wikipedia" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>: "Unlike an NTFS junction point, a symbolic link can also point to a file or remote SMB network path. Additionally, the NTFS symbolic link implementation provides full support for cross-filesystem links. However, the functionality enabling cross-host symbolic links requires that the remote system also support them, which effectively limits their support to Windows Vista and later Windows operating systems." Hi Eric

Junctions have indeed existed for quite a while, however, symbolic links are certainly new to Vista (and probably Server 2008). Here’s a snippet from Wikipedia:

“Unlike an NTFS junction point, a symbolic link can also point to a file or remote SMB network path. Additionally, the NTFS symbolic link implementation provides full support for cross-filesystem links. However, the functionality enabling cross-host symbolic links requires that the remote system also support them, which effectively limits their support to Windows Vista and later Windows operating systems.”

]]> By: Eric http://egilhansen.com/2007/12/24/my-favourite-vista-tricks-and-tweaks/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Eric Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:04:28 +0000 http://www.egil.dk/1999/11/30/my-favourite-vista-tricks-and-tweaks/#comment-41 Symbolic links have existed in Windows since Windows 2000, as it is a feature of NTFS. They are called "junctions". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point Symbolic links have existed in Windows since Windows 2000, as it is a feature of NTFS.

They are called “junctions”.

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

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