Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:02:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au>, David Porter <david.porter.3@csfb.com> Subject: Re: Year 2000 In-Reply-To: <980318143043.ZM10047@dv_csu1a_15>
> Incidentally, since most of the Samba Team seem to read this group, has
> anyone thought of being able to specify other samba servers/shares in the
> path line of a share that would re-direct the connection (kinda like the NIS
> homedir function I guess) This would be useful if a share moves from one
> machine to another, we could point the original request to the new location
> (and take some accounting information so we know which machines to change)
you are referring to DFS (distributed file system) which is currently only
implemented in NT. i specifically want this, but my NT server
core-dumped, wrote out the kernel to hard disk and overwrote the NTFS
partition with total garbage in the process.
so it will take me a while longer...