[Samba] samba as a block device

[Donald Saltarelli]

James- look into 'reparse points' in the microsoft knowledgebase. those
will do something similar on windows 2000 and XP. basically you can
redirect filesystem calls to a directory path, say C:\foo to another
path such as \\samba\share or h:\bar. 

another option of course is iSCSI which is coming into the daylight now.

Donald


On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 11:51, 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
> 
> James
> 
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