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Difference to qustion Creating a symbolic link to mapped network drive in Windows

  1. Referenced question is about building symlink to a mapped network drive. This question doesn't say anything about network drive, but a shared folder.
  2. Answers in referenced question are all about how to use mklink correctly, and how to get privileges for mklink. in this question mklink is used correctly, and the link file is successfully created.

Original question

I have a workstation 10.255.255.200 with a shared folder 10.255.255.200\Share\Data. To access Share folder from remote I need to enter username/password of a local account.

I want to make a symlink on another computer, put at C:\User\UUU\AppData\Roaming\UData, directing 10.255.255.200\Share\Data.

I use this command mklink /D C:\User\UUU\AppData\Raoming\UData \\10.255.255.200\Share\Data to create a symlink, but when I enter the created link using File Explorer it says username or password is invalid.

I can login to 10.255.255.200\Share from File Explorer, and check the folder content. I followed Mklink to a password protected folder and tried net use S: 10.255.255.200\Share\Data * /user:uuuu /persistent:yes and executed successfully, but nothing change when I click on the created symlink. The symlink is also unable to recognize path containing S:.

So hwo can I make the symlink work correctly? Or there's something I got it wrong?

karatoga
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