[Samba] A hierarchy of DFS trees...

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, William Burns wrote:

> 
> I just made a DFS link that pointed to another DFS share on a different
> server...
> It seems to confuse the Win'XP client a bit, but it can be made to work.
> 
> That means....
> I can build a tree structure w/ DFS.
> I can arrange all my servers and shares into a hierarchy.
> It may not be practical, but in theory, This could be used as a hierarchical
> substitute for the network neighborhood.

This is pretty much what AD does with a DFS toplogy.  From what I 
remember, The DFS root for the domain is stored in active directory.
But the topology is created by DFS links on normal file shares.







cheers, jerry
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