How to link a network drive into a folder on Windows 7
How to link a network drive into a folder on Windows 7Have you ever tried to install a software on a network drive or use a network drive as data directory were the software installer checks for the drive type and refuses the installation on network drives? A workaround that helped me in these cases is to use a symlink on Windows. For example, the application wants to put its data in the path C:\ProgramData\appname but you want the data to be stored on the mapped network drive X:\mydata\appname, you can use the following command on the windows commandline to symlink the directorie:mklink /d "C:\ProgramData\appname" "X:\mydata\appname"The benefit is, that the application installer detects now C: as valid local harddrive and uses the symlinked path to store its data on the network drive X:\mydata\appname.The general syntax for the mklink command is:mklink /d symlinkpath targetdirectory
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