Does Bazel support building from a network/shared workspace on Windows?

[godblight]

Continuing the discussion from #28321 and tagging OP @ShubhamIIITD

I saw a similar thread on a forum where the Windows filesystem faced some unexpected failures when a file was rapidly renamed on a shared filesystem: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/129971/xcomn0508e-error-replacing-or-creating-f.html

I then tried to ensure that Bazel does not leave any residues at my network drive M:\ by making the following changes to the .bazelrc file:

startup --install_base=C:/Users/<user>/downloads/bazel_install
startup --output_user_root=C:/Users/<user>/downloads/bazel_out
startup --server_javabase=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk-21
build --tool_java_runtime_version=local_jdk
build --sandbox_tmpfs_path=C:/Users/<user>/downloads/bazel_tmp

The above should've ideally kept temporary files created by operations executed through Bazel on my local drive C:\ but even with this change, I am not able to progress on the Bazel build for a sample stored on my network location.

I got some suggestions from @tjgq regarding further steps for identifying the issues when building my code stored on a network location (say mapped network drive M:) while my Bazel installation lies on my local machine (C:).

Before trying them out, I wanted to ask the community if there is actually a way to get Bazel builds running on Windows when your installation is local but the code base lies on a network location? I got my setup working perfectly fine on Debian 12.10 and I feel that I have something fundamental amiss for Windows 11, could anyone point me to any relevant documentation/blogs?

[godblight]

Bumping this thread up for more eyes from the community.