NTFS Hardlink to UNC Path

[Kristian Oye]

I worked as a peon at Microsoft for a couple of years and I *swear* I
remember a utility (I thought it was called XLINK32 or something) that
allowed you to create an NTFS hardlink to a remote UNC path. Is there
a way to create a link to a remote file so that it appears to be local
on a machine?

e.g.
D:\ftpserver\userfs\username\latestdata.zip -> \\backupserver\backups
\username\data20080514.zip

Thanks in advance!
-Kristian Oye

 

[Tim Slattery]

I worked as a peon at Microsoft for a couple of years and I *swear* I
remember a utility (I thought it was called XLINK32 or something) that
allowed you to create an NTFS hardlink to a remote UNC path. Is there
a way to create a link to a remote file so that it appears to be local
on a machine?

e.g.
D:\ftpserver\userfs\username\latestdata.zip -> \\backupserver\backups
\username\data20080514.zip

I find a "junction" program for making symbolic links here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

Google turns up nothing for xlink32 or xlink.