Thanks DaClyde. No correction needed. It was just the direction I needed to figure out how to mount bundles in Windows. For the benefit of future readers, here are the specific steps I took. This is for one search head (searcher01) and one search peer (indexer01) with Splunk installed on 😧 drives in both cases.
On the search head searcher01...
Created a share etc$ giving Everyone READ permissions
net share etc$="D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc" /GRANT:Everyone,READ
Then edited distsearch.conf to set shareBundle = false.
Notepad.exe "D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local\distsearch.conf"
[distributedSearch]
servers = indexer01:8089
shareBundles = false
(I didn't know whether to remove "servers = indexer01:8089" above so I left it, apparently wthout adverse affect.)
On the search peer indexer01...
Created a new directory and then linked to search head's etc$ share...
D:
mkdir \shared-bundles
cd \shared-bundles
mklink /D searcher01 \\searcher01\etc$
Created new file distsearch.conf with one stanza.
Notepad.exe "D:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local\distsearch.conf"
[searchhead:searcher01]
mounted_bundles = true
bundles_location = d:\shared_bundles\searcher01
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