Symbolic Links between seperate machines

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Symbolic Links between seperate machines

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Hey, I was wondering if anyone had a workaround for the core count available by NFO when trying to link files between machines. Is there some sort of way to do a Symlink without using a 3rd party service such as Google Drive or Dropbox? I run ARK: Survival Evolved servers and need a way to link 2 machines together, more or less just a few files or so (literally just player, dino and item upload data) I believe it's actually just 1 folder that needs to be Symlinked. Anyway, here is a couple threads about what I am talking about.

EDIT: Ark requires 2 cores 4 threads for what I want, we have 4 servers on 1 dedicated 6 core. We think it's what is causing the crashes and need to either remove a server or do this symlinking.

http://arkservermanager.freeforums.net/ ... a-transfer
http://arkservermanager.freeforums.net/ ... -revisited

If anyone has a thread on how to do this specifically, please let me know. Thanks for any input.
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Re: Symbolic Links between seperate machines

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I'm not too familiar with how ARK clustering works, but you can use the below command to make a symbolic link from an UNC path.

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mklink /D "C:\temp11111" \\server\share\foldername\
I'm not sure how the ARk servers will react if the files need to be accessed and/or written to at the same time however. If that presents a problem, you may want to look into doing some other copying mechanism that will only copy the files independently of each other.
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