> Does anyone know how to set up symbolic links for downloads
> with Cold Fusion on an IIS 5/Windows 2000 server? I need to
> be able to offer selected files for downloads, but do not want
> to point the user to the actual file.
>
> Windows 2K is supposed to support symbolic links.
It does support symbolic links. I'm not sure what that buys you, from a web
server's perspective, since you could simply create a virtual directory that
goes somewhere other than the web root.
Here's an article which discusses how to create hard links, and has a link
to a code sample to create them from WSH scripts:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-online/start/features/ntfs5.asp
Enjoy!
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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