We haven't (yet) implemented DFS yet, but my understanding is:

> I'm not a Windows guy, so I have to believe there's something going on
> here that I don't understand.  Why is it warning me about DFS 
mountpoints
> on the Windows system?  Is it that
> 
> - DFS mountpoints work more like a symlink, in that the data actually
>    resides elsewhere on the system but it's presented to the user or
>    client system as if it was under K:?

Yes. You define a DFS namespace, and then mount the volume into that name 
space. And the volume can come from non-local machines.

Hence you can have a DFS namespace "Users", which does *not* have to be 
defined on one server; multiple servers can see it. 

And you can mount volumes from multiple non-local servers under it. 

So you define a DFS namespace "Users". And in there you mount drive H: 
from Server-#1, and drive G: from Server-#2, etc.

And it all shows up as "\Users", for whatever clients have access to that 
namespace ...

> or
> 
> - DFS mountpoints are considered non-local volumes, akin to an NFS mount
>    on UNIX/Linux?

AFAIK, yes. From NW's point of view, apparently.

> Anyone care to clarify what's going on here?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim
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