I would like to manage the symlinks in use for the whole company at a certain directory depth on our filers (FAS3050 + OnTap 7.2.2). I would like to create the following setup so that users see a single share when they browse the filer via CIFS and FTP but give them access to data spread over more than 1 aggregate, volume and qtree.
Filer_1 ======= Aggregate_1 Data_volume_1 Qtree_1 All_data (single share visible to company) Real_dir_1 Symlnk_Real_dir_2 Symlnk_Real_dir_3 Symlnk_Real_dir_4
Aggregate_2 Data_volume_2 Qtree_2 Real_dir_2 Data_volume_3 Qtree_3 Real_dir_3 Data_volume_4 Qtree_4 Real_dir_4
I am aware that I need to configure the widelinks option. How do I create the symlinks from my admin host (FreeBSD) which mounts all the volumes over NFS for data management purposes? I don't want to use a Windows machine to create the links. My users are Win2K and MacOSX clients and access their data using CIFS and FTP (NFS may be used later).
I have a number of samba servers with this data directory setup as a single share visible to users but data spread over a number of disks. I use the unix "ln -s" command to create the necessary symlinks on the samba servers.
Feel free to point out what may be glaringly obvious.
Thanks
Francois