[Samba] samba as a block device

[Andrew Bartlett]

"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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