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?

Question

Following on from a previous question, 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

Answer 1

These settings can also be manipulated directly via the registry (requires local admin to write):

Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Registry values (name/data pairs):

Name                             Type       Data  (1: Enabled; 0: Disabled)
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SymlinkLocalToLocalEvaluation    REG_DWORD     1
SymlinkLocalToRemoteEvaluation   REG_DWORD     1
SymlinkRemoteToLocalEvaluation   REG_DWORD     1
SymlinkRemoteToRemoteEvaluation  REG_DWORD     1

Official documentation is difficult to find, but this appears to be an official Microsoft page: Selectively allow the evaluation of a symbolic link