On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Brian Tao wrote:
From what I understand, NT's DFS looks and acts like UNIX-style directory mounts (i.e., instead of assigning a drive letter to a shared drive, the drive appears under an existing directory).
It's not quite like UNIX-style directory mounts. I haven't played with it in years (yes, it's been around a long time) so th\ake my comments with a a grain of salt. It allows you to redirect mount requests and "layer" mounts just like an automounter does. You still have to mount a tree as a separate disk unless you use UNCs, i.e. \mybox\myshare\mydir1\mydir2\myfile notation.
I think DFS is a funtionality of the master server (the one that will appear at the head of the UNC) and the client. Thus I'm not sure that the netapp can be the master server, but it certainly should be able to be one of the leafs.
Tom