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Merging Shares with DFS?

 
 
dave
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      08-24-2008
I have two Hard drives each with a share on each, both drives are full and
rather then have two shares showing id like to have one that links to both,
on the same server is possible? if so how..thank you
 
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DaveMills
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      08-25-2008
If you mean that the two independent folder will be merged into a single list
and appear as a single folder to the users then I do not think you can do this.
DFS simply provides a namespace mapping service. When the client tries to open a
folder, DFS redirects it to the UNC name via the link. It cannot redirect it to
two UNC paths at the same time.

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:34:02 -0700, dave <> wrote:

>I have two Hard drives each with a share on each, both drives are full and
>rather then have two shares showing id like to have one that links to both,
>on the same server is possible? if so how..thank you

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Rich
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      08-25-2008
You can create links to all the folders in each share which will then appear
as one namespace to all the users. \\Server\shared\folderpath. I did this
recently by using a script that read in all the folders and then used dfsutil
to create all the links. Did a couple hundred folders in seconds. The only
problem is that the dfsutil creates all the links in lower case which is very
annoying.

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> I have two Hard drives each with a share on each, both drives are full and
> rather then have two shares showing id like to have one that links to both,
> on the same server is possible? if so how..thank you

 
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