Addressing NAS drives as NTFS folders

[Canon Bob]

Does anybody know if it's possible to have NAS drives setup as NTFS folders and, if so, what is the syntax for doing it? (This is for Win10 systems)

 

[Studio488commercial]

we just access the shared folders by mapping a drive to the ipaddress then the folder share name ensuring the // is at the front of the ipaddress. //XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/sharedfoldername

 

[Canon Bob]

we just access the shared folders by mapping a drive to the ipaddress then the folder share name ensuring the // is at the front of the ipaddress. //XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/sharedfoldername

Unless I'm missing something here then the procedure that you describe still requires that the drive had an assigned letter rather than being seen as an NTFS folder.....no?

 

[hunnymonster]

The magic words you're looking for are "symbolic link"

Something like "mklink /d C:\Folder\ShareName \\Server\ShareName\Directory" in an elevate/admin command prompt where C:\Folder\ShareName is the directory you want it to be & \\Server\ShareName\Directory is the network location

 

[Canon Bob]

The magic words you're looking for are "symbolic link"

Something like "mklink /d C:\Folder\ShareName \\Server\ShareName\Directory" in an elevate/admin command prompt where C:\Folder\ShareName is the directory you want it to be & \\Server\ShareName\Directory is the network location

Thanks Jason....I'll give it a ret later.

 

[Studio488commercial]

Unless I'm missing something here then the procedure that you describe still requires that the drive had an assigned letter rather than being seen as an NTFS folder.....no?

The NAS drives folders needs to be shared folders, you can then map them to be any drive letter you wish at the computer end, the NAS drives and folder are not assigned letters at the NAS.

 

[Canon Bob]

The NAS drives folders needs to be shared folders, you can then map them to be any drive letter you wish at the computer end, the NAS drives and folder are not assigned letters at the NAS.

I understand that I can assign drive letters to the NAS drives but I'm trying not to. I want to address them as NTFS folders......eg, C:\Photos actually addresses a NAS drive and any files written to C:\Photos are stored on the NAS and not on the C drive. I've got it working this way on a second internal drive by mounting that drive as an NTFS folder (without an assigned drive letter) but I couldn't see how to do the same setup with a drive outside the system.
I've run out of time today but I'll give Jason's suggestion a try tomorrow.

 

[Neilc28]

Hunnymonster is on the money here, symlinks are your friend in this scenario