Error creating symlink on windows machine running vagrant

[jonnywilliamson]

So I use a vagrant box (homestead) to do my development on windows 10.

This allows me to have a linux box, install all my libraries/code etc and still be able to develop on my windows machine using the shared folder feature of virtualbox.

However I have discovered an issue that when trying to use studio, the ability to create a symlink during the installation process fails.

The reason for this seems fairly complicated and probably is a mixture of many of these links - here is a small sample:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10085
hashicorp/vagrant#6024
hashicorp/vagrant#6188

I managed to work around this at the moment by a simple fix. Basically halt your virtual machine (vagrant halt). Close and command prompt you might have been using and then reopen your command prompt AS AN ADMINISTRATOR.

Then, simply vagrant up again and try it again. It should work.

For info I'm using
Windows 10
Vagrant 1.7.4
Virtual Box 5.0.10

[franzliedke]

Does this work for you, too?

config.vm.synced_folder "/projectfolder/www", "/var/www", type: "smb", mount_options: ["vers=3.02","mfsymlinks"]

[jonnywilliamson]

If you update to the latest version of homestead, this is already included if you set your shared folders to smb

See: laravel/homestead@25f6b98

However, if you try and start the VM up again WITHOUT running it as admin, you get this message:

SMB shared folders require running Vagrant with administrative
privileges. This is a limitation of Windows, since creating new
network shares requires admin privileges. Please try again in a
console with proper permissions or use another synced folder type.

So it's kind of pointless for me I think.

It works if I run vagrant as admin and do not have folders set to smb.

If I use smb and add those new mount options, I HAVE to run vagrant as admin otherwise it will not boot up....therefore...why bother?

[franzliedke]

Okay, well, since it's not really a Studio issue, and there seem to be workarounds, I will close this.