title: How do I overcome the "The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled." error when getting the target of a symbolic link?
body: <p>Following on from a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/221417/how-do-i-programmatically-access-the-target-path-of-a-windows-symbolic-link">previous question</a>, I am creating a symbolic link on a Server 2008 from a Vista machine using UNC paths. I can create the link just fine. I can go to the Server 2008 box and double click on the link in explorer to open the target file. What I cannot do though is use FileCreateW to get a handle to the UNC path link (from the Vista box). When I try it, it fails and GetLastError() returns error code 1463 (0x5B7), which is:</p>
  
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    <p>The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled.</p>
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  <p>How to enable its "type" in Server 2008 (assuming the error means what it says)?</p>