Talk:NTFS symbolic link

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This is not encyclopedic. NTFS symbolic link information should be part of symbolic link. 66.71.68.209 08:08, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vista?

I was under the impression that symbolic links have been part of the NTFS filesystem for some time now, but were inaccessable without a third-party utility. Does anyone know for sure?

Before vista there was something called an NTFS junction point that could be used in some cases as a Symbolic link. Virtualblackfox 13:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] any windows 2000 or higher

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx Microsoft provides symlinks for NTFS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.98.147.139 (talk) 22:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

NTFS provided (and still does) Junction Points and Hard links. True there is some functionality overlap but they are different from Symbolic Links. The former were available pre-Vista, while the latter was introduced with Windows Vista. --soum ^talk 06:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)