Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken.

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On 29-Sep-06, at 5:25 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> UNC wouldn't be so horrible if hostnames could have functional  
> aliases,
> so you could move mountpoints around and still have a single  
> namespace.
> maybe there's some way to do this with active directory, but my
> co-worker couldn't figure it out, and I've disavowed myself from the
> windows world maintenance.  maybe somebody here knows?

There are two answers to this,

1) Uh, yes, they can have functional DNS aliases. Nothing is stopping  
you from setting up your DNS such that \\salesdeptfiles.somedomain\  
points to the same machine \\fileserver01\

2) You might also want to look at DFS, which allows you to do things  
like \\somename\dept\abc and \\somename\dept\def pointing to shares  
on different servers. This does not require AD, but I believe might  
only work on Windows, on linux with fairly new versions of samba (if  
at all), and only with ADmitMac or Dave on the Mac.

Now, of course, I have plenty of reasons to hate SMB, but UNC paths  
aren't one of them.

~patrick

• Aaron J. Grier 01:25 on 30 Sep 2006
  • Patrick Quinn-Graham 01:43 on 30 Sep 2006
  • Jeremy Stephens 18:27 on 20 Oct 2006
    • Dave Hodgkinson 18:32 on 20 Oct 2006
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    • Robert G. Werner 19:01 on 20 Oct 2006

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