Faking symlink under windows?

[opido]

I have an security application that creates a symlink to a /content directory (which is disabled from web view). It works fine under *nix of course, but now the boss wants it to work on NT/IIS. I know that symlink() won't work on Win32 and I'm not sure if I can create a shortcut that the server would follow to the content.

A normal link to the content looks something like this:

/10009fd35800e1cf72819405a31d75e3e8581 -> /content

Is there any way to create the session link/shortcut without copying the content into a new folder? Most content folders have 100+ MB of data so copying that for each user would not be efficient.

[opido]

Ok, I have done quite a bit of research now, and have come back with a possible solution... Virtual Directories. Now the question is, how can I create these from a PHP script? Is there a COM function that can do this?

Any help at all would be great.

[opido]

Anyone know how to do this? Either via COM or something else. All I need is to be able to point these virtual directories at another directory. Might be my way of faking symlinks.

[opido]

For anyone following this thread, I found the MS implementation of symlinks... they are called junction points. The downside is that I don't have a Resource Kit so I haven't been able to test this yet. Looks promising though:

<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q205524>