Windows symbolic link problem

[benwood]

I have a PC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 set up as a media server where I store my DVD rips. I play them with my Patriot Box Office (PBO) media player. I have the movie Alien ripped as files in the directory named Alien which is in turn stored in a directory named SciFi. I also want to have the movie Alien appear in the Horror directory so I created the following symbolic link to do so: mklink /D "F:\Movies\Horror\Alien" "F:\Movies\SciFi\Alien". After creating the link I could see the files in the F:\Movies\Horror\Alien directory from Windows Explorer with no problem. But my Patriot Box Office saw the directory F:\Movies\Horror\Alien as empty. I tried using NTFS junction points instead and they worked but neither Flexraid nor SnapRaid, the programs that I want to use to protect my file rips support NTFS junctions. Any ideas as to the problem and how to fix it?

P.S. For some reason this board is replacing the colons in my post with Smile icons.

 

[John Connor]

P.S. For some reason this board is replacing the colons in my post with Smile icons.

It's because of

:/

I use the code BB code to enter in paths on a board that uses that as an emoticon.

Far as your problem I don't know what to say.

 

[ViRGE]

It sounds like the Patriot device doesn't know how to interpret symbolic links (they're interpreted client side, not server side). In which case you're flat out not going to be able to use symlinks.