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Folder, Printer, and Share Management
143 NAS 4000s and 9000s Administration Guide
Figure 81: DFS Win32 GUI
DFS Administration Tool
The DFS Administration Tool provides extended functionality not found in the WebUI. These
functions include:
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Management of multiple DFS Roots on multiple machines from a single interface
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Domain based DFS management
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Target and Link management
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Status Checks of a DFS managed share link
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Exporting of the DFS names space to a text file
The NAS server administration guide only provides instructions on the WebUI portion of the
product. The DFS Administration Tool is complete with online help. In addition, general
information on DFS may be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/dfs.mspx
Accessing the DFS Namespace from other Computers
In addition to the server-based DFS component of the Windows Storage Server 2003 family,
there is a client-based DFS component. The DFS client caches a referral to a DFS root or a
DFS link for a specific length of time, defined by the administrator.
The DFS client component runs on a number of different Windows platforms. In the case of
older versions of Windows, the client software must be downloaded to run on that version of
Windows. Newer versions of Windows have client software built-in.
Non-Windows (such as Linux/UNIX) based clients can not access the DFS namespace as DFS
is dependent on a Windows component to function.