While NTFS junction points support only absolute paths on local drives, the NTFS symbolic links allow linking using relative paths. Unlike an NTFS junction point, an NTFS 3.1 symbolic link can also point to a file or remote SMB network path.
Windows symbolic links to files are distinct from Windows symbolic links to directories. The ntfs.sys released with Windows Vista made the functionality available to user mode applications by default.
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Third-party filter drivers – such as Masatoshi Kimura's opensource senable driver – could however be installed to make the feature available in user mode as well. NTFS 3.1 was introduced together with Windows XP, but the functionality was not made available (through ntfs.sys) to user mode applications. From NTFS 3.1 onwards, symbolic links can be created for any kind of file system object. Symbolic links to directories or volumes, called junction points and mount points, were introduced with NTFS 3.0 that shipped with Windows 2000. Symbolic links should be transparent to users the links appear as normal files or directories, and can be acted upon by the user or application in exactly the same manner. The object being pointed to is called the target. An NTFS symbolic link (symlink) is a filesystem object in the NTFS filesystem that points to another filesystem object.
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