Anyone know how portable "symlink" is for Windows NT with IIS?

The purpose of this is to allow the viewing of protected images by creating a complex symlink name pointing to a secure file on the server on a per-user/per-browse basis (on the fly).

With this method, I won't have to pipe the image through a cgi every time the image is required - a cgi for something like this causes too much load - and still keep a fair level of security.

But the question of course, is can I do it?

Hi Aki,

The closest thing I've ever been able to come up with is this: http://www.sysinternals.com/.../misc.shtml#junction which I think is closely related to this: http://support.microsoft.com/...cid=kb;EN-US;q205524. It doesn't really look like what you need though. The above tools are just for directories and not files. I hate to be one of the "me too's" but if you do find a solution to this please let me know, I gave up looking for a Windows alternative long ago.

Regards,
Charlie

[edit]I also think these tools are dependent on the file system being NTFS[/edit]