SGI CXFS and Windows DFS

From: Brandon Walsh (brandonwalsh_9_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/15/04

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    Hello,

    I have 2 Windows 2000 Servers (winhost1 and winhost2) and 3 IRIX
    machines that share a drive on a SAN using CXFS.

    In this network there are also several Windows 2000 workstations that
    are not connected directly to the SAN, but need to access the data on
    the SAN. I also need "High-Availability", so sharing the CXFS drive to
    the workstations using simple Windows sharing is a bad option, because
    it uses a physical host name such as \\winhost1\cxfs-drive; if winhost1
    crashes, the workstations will lose the connection, even though the SAN
    and the other server are still available. I need a shared drive name
    which would not depend on one host.

    One idea that arose here is to use Windows DFS, which creates a global
    domain shared name, which will look like \\domain.com\cxfs-drive . It
    looks OK on paper, but does anyone know whether CXFS lives well with
    *Windows* DFS?

    Thank you very much.

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