I posted a question earlier about administering filers with Unix and without NFS. Thanks for all of the responses. The new filers have arrived and I have been playing around with them and have these observations:
1) rdfile and wrfile are your friends. They work best via rsh.
2) The builtin CIFS license is read only. You can map the C$ share (provided that you use "cifs access" to enable access) but you can only read.
3) You can't mkdir from the DOT command line, not even from "priv set advanced" so that means that wrfile is limited to existing directories, although you can create new files.
4) If you have another filer where you can create directories then you can use ndmpcopy to copy a new directory over.
5) software install via http works great.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support