{"id":329,"date":"2011-03-07T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-03-07T02:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:00:46","slug":"windows-7-network-map-to-a-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2011\/03\/07\/windows-7-network-map-to-a-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 network map to a folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an older program that in XP would see mapped network drives but in Windows 7 something is different and the old program wouldn&#8217;t recognize mapped drives. Now I&#8217;m more bald than when I began but I found a solution to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Vista and Win 7 have a dos command called <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc753194%28WS.10%29.aspx\">mklink<\/a>. This command can create a symbolic link to a folder.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_MTCS_main_ctl02\"><\/p>\n<pre id=\"ctl00_MTCS_main_ctl02_code\">mklink \/d \\MyDocs \\Users\\User1\\Documents<\/pre>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Where<em> \/d<\/em> creates a symbolic link<\/p>\n<p><em>\\MyDocs <\/em>is the destination name of the link (which will have a folder icon)<\/p>\n<p>and <em>\\Users\\User1\\Documents<\/em> is the source (could be \\\\10.44.333.3\\Folder\\Folder2)<\/p>\n<p>Once I set up one of these my problem program still wouldn&#8217;t entirely accept it but if I just typed in a little extra folder information in the box &#8230; well it took it right away!<\/p>\n<p>mklink will also create hard links and directory junctions but those can be problematic in many ways, even mess up backup routines (I had a hard link which caused the Rsync backup routine to actually randomly delete files in the linked folder).<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ctl00_MTCS_main_ctl02\"><\/p>\n<pre id=\"ctl00_MTCS_main_ctl02_code\"><\/pre>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an older program that in XP would see mapped network drives but in Windows 7 something is different and the old program wouldn&#8217;t recognize mapped drives. Now I&#8217;m more bald than when I began but I found a solution to the problem. Vista and Win 7 have a dos command called mklink. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}