[Samba] samba as a block device
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Wed Sep 25 21:27:10 GMT 2002
"James S. Martin" wrote:
>
> Netapp (a CIFS/NFS NAS solution) has the ability to emulate a physical
> device and present itself as a local drive to a Windows box over the
> network. It involves a Windows client side driver as well as some
> server side stuff to do this. To Windows, the drive appears to be local
> and not a mapped drive (you can format it/etc) Are there any
> initiatives to do something like this with Samba?
>
> http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapdrive.html
Samba keeps out of the client-side stuff - it's too hairy over there...
Andrew Bartlett
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