Yes, exactly. I misread the question thinking that he wanted a different name. That's what I get for trying to multitask. :)

-----Original Message----- From: George, Andrew [mailto:Andrew.George@anz.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:23 PM To: Parisi, Justin; Bill Holland; Chaim Rieger; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: cifs shortcut question

Wont that just change the hostname part of he UNC path so \servername\sharename becomes \aliasname\sharename ?

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Parisi, Justin Sent: Friday, 27 February 2009 8:00 AM To: Bill Holland; Chaim Rieger; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: cifs shortcut question

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

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