'.lnk' shown in a mounted folder

Question

I'm trying to mount a Windows partition in my Ubuntu system so I edited fstab with this:

/dev/sda4   /mnt/windows    ntfs    rw,auto     0   0

This mounts without any problem my Windows partition into /mnt/windows but when I try to access to an especific folder I find this with ls -l:

-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root        844 oct  6 17:21 'Universidad - Acceso directo.lnk'

and I cannot access using cd.

I tried using lnkinfo to see if it was usefull to me but it wasn't.

Windows Shortcut information:
Contains a link target identifier


Link information:

Creation time           : Sep 12, 2018 11:54:32.625892600 UTC
Modification time       : Sep 29, 2020 15:12:40.035328300 UTC
Access time         : Sep 29, 2020 15:12:40.035328300 UTC
File size           : 4096 bytes
Icon index          : 0
Show Window value       : 0x00001000
Hot Key value           : 4096
File attribute flags        : 0x00000010
    Is directory (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)
Drive type          : Fixed (3)
Drive serial number     : 0xb65790ec
Volume label            : FREEDOS
Local path          : D:\Escritorio\Universidad

Link target identifier:
Shell item list
    Number of items     : 3

Shell item: 1
    Item type       : Root folder
    Class type indicator    : 0x1f (Root folder)
    Shell folder identifier : 20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d
    Shell folder name   : My Computer

Shell item: 2
    Item type       : Volume
    Class type indicator    : 0x2e (Volume)
Extension block: 1
    Signature       : 0xbeef0026

Shell item: 3
    Item type       : File entry
    Class type indicator    : 0x31 (File entry: Directory)
    Name            : UNIVER~1
    Modification time   : Sep 29, 2020 15:12:42
    File attribute flags    : 0x00000010
        Is directory (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)
Extension block: 1
    Signature       : 0xbeef0004 (File entry extension)
    Long name       : Universidad
    Creation time       : Sep 12, 2018 11:54:34
    Access time     : Sep 29, 2020 15:12:42
    NTFS file reference : MFT entry: 45880, sequence: 1

How can I fix it and access to the folder? In Windows the folder it's not a direct access.

Folder shown in Windows

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and mounting Windows 10.

Thank you!

Answer 1

The file 'Universidad - Acceso directo.lnk' is a windows shortcut file. It therefore will work only as expected from within the Windows operating system.

Linux symbolic links provide similar functionality. Since the windows file system ntfs appears to support them to some extent, you could create a symbolic link and use that for navigation.

A somewhat more complicated approach is to create a folder in the folder where the windows shortcut resides, and then mount --bind your target folder to that folder. Next to being more complicated, it will work in Linux only.