Publishing A New Share In Dfs - HP 345646-001 - StorageWorks NAS 2000s External Storage Server Administration Manual

Folder, Printer, and Share Management

Publishing a New Share in DFS

Once a root has been established either on the local machine or one in the network, shares can
be published in order to extend the virtual name space. For example, several shares can be
created for a DFS root labeled "Engineering." The shares might be titled "Documentation,"
"Technical Specs," and "Project Info." When mapping to \\computername\engineering, all
three of these shares would be found under the mapped drive even though they exist on
different NAS devices, drives or shares points. To publish a share in a DFS root:
Figure 78: DFS share example
1. Select Shares from the WebUI.
2. Type in a new share name
3. Type in a folder name (select the checkbox Create folder if appropriate)
4. Verify that the Windows checkbox is selected. (DFS is dependent on the SMB protocol)
5. Under DFS, check the box if unchecked.
Note:
checked. See the section above
6. Enter in the name of the DFS root to publish the share ("Engineering" in this example).
7. Click OK.
A share name will be published in the namespace.
To view the namespace, map a drive to the DFS root. All published shares will be seen in the
namespace. See the example in
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The default behavior can be set to publish all shares to DFS. In this case the box will be
The network name will be displayed below the entry.
lts.
Setting DFS Sharing Defau
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