cifs and server-less unc
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Thu Apr 24 20:36:13 GMT 2003
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 12:10:26PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> When IBM sold warp server, they had a great feature called domain
> aliases --which allowed a domain wide name that pointed to the
> standard unc (servername\sharename). Is this the same functionality
> provided by cifs? I noticed that cifs shares are created by
> symlinks in the file system. Seems this is ripe for a gui admin tool
> like the IBM domain admin tool...
David,
I don't really understand your description of the feature you're asking
about. Samba shares are not generally created using symlinks...
Can you provide a better description?
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