How to support DFS?

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Hi All,

I am writing a File System Filter Driver. I want to support Distributed File System (DFS).

What points I should take care & what rules I should follow to achieve it?

Is there any material/article available on internet that will guide me to implement it?

Thanks & Regards,
Amit.

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On which version of the O/S? If it’s pre-Vista good luck because there are
lots of strange behaviors. There’s a write up about our experiences here:

http://osronline.com/article.cfm?article=557

-scott

–
Scott Noone
Consulting Associate and Chief System Problem Analyst
OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
http://www.osronline.com

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Hi All,

I am writing a File System Filter Driver. I want to support Distributed File
System (DFS).

What points I should take care & what rules I should follow to achieve it?

Is there any material/article available on internet that will guide me to
implement it?

Thanks & Regards,
Amit.

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for the reply. I have read the article. But I want support DFS on Vista and above. Is there any help or documentation available?

Thanks & Regards,
Amit.

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In my experience handling DFS is less much painful >= Vista than in XP, but
it still not going to be pain free.

Most of your pain will be in making sure that it is adequately tested since
there appear to be a million and one ways of configuring it and many of them
will expose bugs that you hadn’t thought of - it may well be that some of
them were there in your RDR product, but you hadn’t managed to configure it
quite like that…

The usual warning about filtering the network applies of course (name
issues, Stream Contexts not being guarantees of uniqueness and so on).