Can you link an NTFS junction point to a directory on a Network Attached Storage?

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I'm using Windows, and I want to use Dropbox to back up a folder outside my Dropbox directory. So I want to create a junction point from my target directory to my Dropbox folder. Accoding to the Wikipedia article on NTFS junction points, which the Dropbox answer links to:

"Junction points can only link to directories on a local volume; junction points to remote shares are unsupported."

I am looking to link to a directory on networked attached storage, which would not be a local volume, I believe. What should I do?

Zoredache · Answer 1 · 2011-09-22 18:35:04Z

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About the only think you can do is create a symbolic link.

answered Sep 22 '11 at 18:35

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	I think Symbolic Links only work on Vista+, and I think the target system also needs to support them. – techie007 Sep 22 '11 at 20:00
	Ah, didn't notice he had specified the OS in the tag. AFAIK, there is no possible solution on Windows XP. – Zoredache Sep 22 '11 at 20:38
	Also, symbolic links casn't be made to network drives, even if they have a local drive letter. – Hand-E-Food Sep 23 '11 at 0:31
	@Hand-E-Food, that seems to contradict Wikipedia which states `a symbolic link can also point to a file or remote SMB network path`. – Zoredache Sep 23 '11 at 0:53
	@Zoredache, I gave it another go. I can't create a Junction to a network path. I can create a Symbolic Link to a network path or mapped drive, but I can only navigate it in Explorer. I can't use `cd` or `dir` on the link. It may work for Dropbox, I'm not sure. – Hand-E-Food Sep 23 '11 at 1:14

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