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3-88 Compaq TaskSmart N2400 Administration Guide
Administrative Compared to Standard Shares
Planning for Compatibility Between CIFS and NFS
CIFS supports both administrative shares and standard shares. Administrative
shares are shares with a last character of "$". Administrative shares are not
included in the list of shares when a client browses for available shares on a
CIFS server. Standard shares are shares that do not end in a "$" character.
Standard shares are listed whenever a CIFS client browses for available shares
on a CIFS server.
The TaskSmart N2400 appliance supports both administrative and standard
CIFS shares. To create an administrative share, end the share name with the
"$" character when setting up the share. To create a standard share, do not type
a "$" character at the end of the share name.
When you plan for cross-platform share management on the TaskSmart N2400
appliance, it is important to remember two considerations.
Consider the following two administrative requirements to provide the greatest
compatibility between CIFS and NFS. Further information, including details
about the NFS Service and the User Mapping service, is available in "User
Name Mapping" in Chapter 4, "Integrating UNIX into Windows NT."
NFS service does not support spaces in the names for NFS exports.
NFS translates any spaces in an export into an underscore character.
Additional translations can be set up for files. See the Compaq "OEM
Supplemental Help" chapter of the SFU help, found on the
TaskSmart N2400 console. This feature is designed to ensure the
greatest level of compatibility with NFS clients, because some do not
work with NFS exports that contain a space in the export name. If you
plan to use the same name when sharing a folder through CIFS, and then
exporting it through NFS, do not put spaces in the CIFS share name.
NFS service does not support exporting a child folder when its parent
folder has already been exported.
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