I thought hardlinks dont work over the network? I created an addon to create hardlinks on windows: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/deskcuts/
Yeah hard links over network dont work for sure.
Symlink may i dont know i didnt look into that, but that needs admin privileges to create.
Symlinks are the business. Windows supports them now, so join us in the 20th century 
You would rarely want to use a hard link. Despite sounding as if they are better, I’ve yet to come across them in use in the real world. Unless you understand the implications, best to stay away from these.
Symlinks work across networks, or certain networks anyway. I don’t know if you can point one to a V-drive since that is not a persistent name, just a run-time label that could change the next time you boot.
Ah yeah sylinks will probably work, but you do need admin privelages to create them. Or did that change?
Ill hook up deskcuts with symlink support windows too 
after they accept ver1
Verified sym link on win needs elevated privileges. Will still land this to deskctus, but heres all the info:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363878(v=vs.85).aspx