i don't see any benefit for doing it this way. you can use a seperate gigabit-connection from nt-box to the toaster. then use the "net use" command or say to frontpage to use "\toaster\inetpub". so you have near the performance of a san and the toaster as your storage.

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-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Mark D Simmons Sent: Montag, 25. September 2000 00:43 To: Richard Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Presenting Netapp as a location disk

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:35:13PM +0100, Richard wrote:

I know this is not really, a question that applies just to Netapp's but at the moment I am looking at a SAN that allows the shared remote disk array to be seen by a NT system as if it is a local disk drive (this helps make frontpage happy). And I am trying to find a way to do this with a Netapp as a remote filestore, surly someone has written a NTFS filesystem driver for NT that reads from a network drive, but presents itself as a local drive? If a SAN can offer this it must be possible?

I've informally mentioned that the same thing would be very nice on Unix too, both in the distant, and recent past.

Currently I manage no filers so I cannot really RFE this.

As a concept it's in serious conflict with the appliance philosphy. However, I think the benefits to some users might even justify their stumping up cash separately to buy it..