Windows – Symbolic link or Junction to a Networked Samba Share

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I have a samba share mounted as a network drive. However, I can't make any sort of symbolic link or junction point to it. Is this possible?

When I try the following command:

mklink /D X:\Samba\dir C:\path_to_dir

I get "The file or directory is not a reparse point."

mklink /J X:\Samba\dir C:\path_to_dir

I get "Local NTFS volumes are required to complete this operation."

Any thoughts?

It works like this

mklink /d "C:\path_to_dir" "X:\Samba\dir"