Yep.  Bill is correct, you have to do \\server-name\share-name for CIFS*.  I believe the closest you could come with CIFS is to alias "irfl2.company.corp" as "irfiles.company.corp" in DNS.

If all clients have the proper DNS suffix search order defined, then you could map \\irfiles\irfiles.  This would also require a NetBIOS alias to be setup on the filer if you still have WINS around for name resolution.

*NFS lets you get around this by using the "alias=" export option.

Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP
National Instruments

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From:	"Bill Holland" <hollandwl@gmail.com>
To:	"Chaim Rieger" <lists@up-south.com>, <toasters@mathworks.com>
Date:	02/26/2009 02:59 PM
Subject:	Re: cifs shortcut question
Sent by:	owner-toasters@mathworks.com

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You can't

CIFS naming paths are \\servername\sharename

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chaim Rieger" <lists@up-south.com>
To: <toasters@mathworks.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: cifs shortcut question


> path to cifs share is
> \\irfl2.company.corp\irfiles
>
> however i want it to be mounted via
>
> \\irfiles
>
>
> how do i go about doing this ?
>
> irfiles.company.corp is in dns already
>
> --
> --
> Chaim Rieger
>