A good friend of mine, Ian, pointed out that in addition to Subst, there is another way to map drives. This one is specific to network shares, but you can use the command net from the command prompt.The syntax is pretty simple: net use {drive} \\{computer}\{Share}
Now you *can* replace {drive} with “*” to use the next available drive letter. If you use the command net help use, you can get more help on how to use it.
In addition, on the last blog post, and also from Ian, there is apparently a free tool that I haven’t used to create “junction points”. SysInternal provides a free utility.
[Via SeanDaniel.com on SBS 2003 & other Tech-stuff]
This innocuous post lead me on merry chase. I was curious about junctions so I went over to Sysinternals. After some fooling around I ended up at a very nice article on Windows Symbolic and Hard Links at Shell-Shocked. Since I had read so much about junctions I decided to try them out so I downloaded and installed NTFS Link from elsdoerfer.info. I created a hard link to my temp folder on my Desktop. It worked. Jdiskreport says I have a temp folder on my Desktop which contains the same files and folders located elsewhere on my disk. I still do not know what to do with junctions. One thought is to enhance the My Photos and Videos folders. On my PC these are redirected to fileserver and synchronized. The inadvertent offline copies created with Adobe Photoshop Elements and Pinnacle Studio have caused me some headaches in the past as it quickly used up local disk space. My efforts to turn off synchronization for these folders have not gone well so this might be an alternative.