Access Is Denied on Mklink
I Am Trying to Get a Symlink Working over a Network Drive. I Have Already Tried Suggestions on Questions Already Asked, Such as Running as Administrator and...
I am trying to get a symlink working over a network drive.
I have already tried suggestions on questions already asked, such as running as administrator and checking if the directory already exists. Unfortunately it still gives me the following error:
C:\Windows\system32>mklink /d \\myserver\someLink \\myserver\mydir
Access is denied.
Any ideas how I could get this working? The local machine is running windows 7 and the remote machine is running windows server 2008 R2 standard.
3 Answers
I jumped through all the hoops:
- Create a non-admin account (in my case, activated the
guestaccount). - As
Admin, runsecpol.mscand grant this accountCreate Symbolic Linkpermissions. runas /user:guest cmdto open a command window as the guest.only to get caught on the simplest problem: because I was running as
guest, I didn't have write permissions within the directory. So,As admin, change permissions in the target directory (where you want to make the link) to give write access to the non-admin user.
I had this while I wanted to create a hard link with mklink /H ....
By removing the /H, the error vanished as well.
So if a symbolic link does the trick for you as well, you should try this.
This is a little silly, but make sure you're using /D (soft) or /J (hard) for directories or you'll get access denied.
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