{"id":341,"date":"2011-10-22T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blt.homenet.org\/wordpress\/?p=341"},"modified":"2011-10-22T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T19:15:54","slug":"discovering-symbolic-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Symbolic Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was trying to do symbolic links in Windows 7 like you can do in Linux.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t try too hard as I really didn&#8217;t have a good need for it at the time.\u00a0 Well I recently found a good need for symbolic links so I looked a bit harder.\u00a0\u00a0 Not too long later I came across several sites that recommended <a title=\"Link Shell Extension\" href=\"http:\/\/schinagl.priv.at\/nt\/hardlinkshellext\/hardlinkshellext.html#introduction\" target=\"_blank\">Link Shell Extension<\/a>.\u00a0 After messing around with this a while I can say this does exactly what I want&#8230;.almost.<\/p>\n<p>For my use I want to be able to share some pictures on FTP for friends to download, but I don&#8217;t want to let the FTP program, <a title=\"Filezilla\" href=\"http:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Filezilla<\/a>, have access to all my pictures.\u00a0 I also dodn&#8217;t really care to have pictures in two places (my pictures folder and in the FTP folder).\u00a0 With symbolic links I am able to keep the pictures in my personal pictures folder and then create a symbolic link in the FTP folder.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I only have one copy of the pictures on my computer and my FTP folder can only see the pictures that I&#8217;ve linked.<\/p>\n<p>Before using this I did a quick test.\u00a0 If you delete the symbolic link the files are not deleted, but if you go into the folder that is linked and delete a file within it the actual file is deleted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For how I don&#8217;t think I need to use hard links as programs seem to work fine with the symbolic (or soft) links.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that I was hoping to do was to link files from my external hard drives shared through my <a title=\"DD-WRT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/site\/index\" target=\"_blank\">ww-drt<\/a> flashed router.\u00a0 It seems though that the link shell extension program will only work with local files.\u00a0 For now not a big deal, but I&#8217;ll probably keep my eyes out for a solution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was trying to do symbolic links in Windows 7 like you can do in Linux.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t try too hard as I really didn&#8217;t have a good need for it at the time.\u00a0 Well I recently found a good need for symbolic links so I looked a bit harder.\u00a0\u00a0 Not too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,35,36],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","tag-link-shell-extension","tag-symbolic-links","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}