DFS Usage Question/Creative CIFS aliasing
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This is a two part question. I have a site in which client is using a DFS share to provide easy referencing to a CIFS share that may change as part of a disaster recovery plan. For example: \\corp\dfs\data ---> \\host1\data or in the event of a disaster \\host2\data This isn't the usual use for a DFS share but we couldn't find any other way to go about creating a "common" name for CIFS share without changing hostnames. I had thought about using a DNS alias but that throws out a "Duplicate name exists on the network" error. Does anyone know of way to accomplish this sort of aliasing w/ or w/o the DFS?