Netapp (a CIFS/NFS NAS solution) has the ability to emulate a physical device and present itself as a local drive to a Windows box over the network. It involves a Windows client side driver as well as some server side stuff to do this. To Windows, the drive appears to be local and not a mapped drive (you can format it/etc) Are there any initiatives to do something like this with Samba? http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapdrive.html James
"James S. Martin" wrote:> > Netapp (a CIFS/NFS NAS solution) has the ability to emulate a physical > device and present itself as a local drive to a Windows box over the > network. It involves a Windows client side driver as well as some > server side stuff to do this. To Windows, the drive appears to be local > and not a mapped drive (you can format it/etc) Are there any > initiatives to do something like this with Samba? > > http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapdrive.htmlSamba keeps out of the client-side stuff - it's too hairy over there... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
James- look into 'reparse points' in the microsoft knowledgebase. those will do something similar on windows 2000 and XP. basically you can redirect filesystem calls to a directory path, say C:\foo to another path such as \\samba\share or h:\bar. another option of course is iSCSI which is coming into the daylight now. Donald On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 11:51, James S. Martin wrote:> Netapp (a CIFS/NFS NAS solution) has the ability to emulate a physical > device and present itself as a local drive to a Windows box over the > network. It involves a Windows client side driver as well as some > server side stuff to do this. To Windows, the drive appears to be local > and not a mapped drive (you can format it/etc) Are there any > initiatives to do something like this with Samba? > > http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapdrive.html > > James > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >