mapped drive even though they exist on different storage servers, drives, or shares points. To publish
a share in a DFS root:
Figure 61 DFS share example
1.
From the WebUI, click the Shares tab.
2.
Enter a new share name.
3.
Enter 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, select the box if unchecked.
NOTE:
The default behavior can be set to publish all shares to DFS. In this case the box will be checked. See
the section above Setting DFS Sharing Defaults.
6.
Enter the name of the DFS root to publish the share ("Engineering" in this example). The network
name is displayed below the entry.
7.
Click OK.
A share name is published in the namespace.
To view the namespace, map a drive to the DFS root. All published shares are seen in the namespace.
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