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Additionally, the NTFS symbolic link implementation provides full support for cross-filesystem links. However, the functionality enabling cross-host symbolic links requires that the remote system also support them, which effectively limits their support to Windows Vista and later Windows operating systems.
A symbolic link contains a text string that is automatically interpreted and followed by the operating system as a path to another file or directory. This other file or directory is called the "target". The symbolic link is a second file that exists independently of its target. If a symbolic link is deleted, its target remains unaffected.
For example, Windows Vista implemented NTFS symbolic links, Transactional NTFS, partition shrinking, and self-healing. [23] NTFS symbolic links are a new feature in the file system; all the others are new operating system features that make use of NTFS features already in place.
Symbolic links and transactioning of file operations via Transactional NTFS are features new to Windows Vista. Although Windows 9x operating systems cannot read or write NTFS formatted disks, they can access the data over a network if it is shared by a computer running Windows NT. Windows NT (all versions) ISO 9660 (CDFS)
No, Windows 2000 does not support symbolic links (except as shortcuts and mount points). NTFS 3, which is the default file system of Windows 2000, provides generic support for symbolic links, but Windows 2000 has no way to create or follow them. As the reference points out, you can use shortcuts or mount points "like" symbolic links.
Microsoft has published some developer documentation on symbolic links in the MSDN documentation. [44] In addition, Windows Explorer is now symbolic link-aware and deleting a symbolic link from Explorer just deletes the link itself and not the target object. Explorer also shows the symbolic link target in the object's properties and shows a ...
These are actually attributes but are referred to as permissions or modes. These special modes are for a file or directory overall, not by a class, though in the symbolic notation (see below) the setuid bit is set in the triad for the user, the setgid bit is set in the triad for the group and the sticky bit is set in the triad for others.
The server component of Distributed File System was first introduced as an add-on to Windows NT 4.0 Server, called "DFS 4.1", [5] and was later included as a standard component of all editions of Windows 2000 Server. Client-side support is included in Windows NT 4.0 and later versions of Windows.