Access is denied on mklink

I jumped through all the hoops:

  1. Create a non-admin account (in my case, activated the guest account).
  2. As Admin, run secpol.msc and grant this account Create Symbolic Link permissions.
  3. runas /user:guest cmd to open a command window as the guest.only to get caught on the simplest problem: because I was running as guest, I didn’t have write permissions within the directory. So,
  4. As admin, change permissions in the target directory (where you want to make the link) to give write access to the non-admin user.

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