I have read through some of the info on using dfs roots and I am needing some advice. Since a unc is still \\servername\ based it occurs to me that the only way to do this properly is to create a smb.conf file that publishes a netbios name like \\dfsroot -- Then, to create a failover system, I would take that config file and copy it around to multiple samba server. Then, have some kind of watch or heartbeat like monitor (that would only monitor where the name and services called \\dfsroot was still alive and responding) that would wait untill \\dfsroot no longer responded (where ever it was). Then, if \\dfsroot failed to respond, it new \\dfsroot smbserver would be launched to take over. Conceptually, the smb service that is known as \\dfsroot really is just a 'share directory service'. It doesn't have to have any other shares that it serves. It could be guest readable. Is this a close approximation to the way it works? -- David Bear phone: 602-496-0424 fax: 602-496-0955 College of Public Programs/ASU University Center Rm 622 411 N Central Phoenix, AZ 85007-0685 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"