Yea, I saw that after I posted. My apologies. I read the question wrong. :)

From: Jeff Mery [mailto:jeff.mery@ni.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:17 PM
To: Parisi, Justin
Cc: Bill Holland; Chaim Rieger; owner-toasters@mathworks.com; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: cifs shortcut question

Correct, but it still requires access to the data via \\netbios-alias\share rather than just \\share.

NetBIOS aliases also requires a running WINS server if you're traversing subnets to access the server.  WINS is getting to be a rare thing in my experience.

Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP
National Instruments

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From: "Parisi, Justin" <Justin.Parisi@netapp.com>
To: "Bill Holland" <hollandwl@gmail.com>, "Chaim Rieger" <lists@up-south.com>, <toasters@mathworks.com>
Date: 02/26/2009 03:09 PM
Subject: RE: cifs shortcut question
Sent by: owner-toasters@mathworks.com




Not true.

You can use a netbios alias:

https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=ntapcs1857
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel7251/html/ontap/filesa
g/accessing/task/t_oc_accs_creating_NetBIOS_aliases.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Holland [mailto:hollandwl@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:54 PM
To: Chaim Rieger; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: cifs shortcut question

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
>