RE: Question about IFS and password synchronization

You do not necessarily have to map a drive.  File server have shares,
that is a folder you see when browsing you network neighborhood and
hides the physical location.

Then on a server called fileserver with 2 disk drives, C: and D: you can
have a share call Apples that reside at d:\shares\Oranges.  What the
network sees is \\fileserver\apples.  They do not know that it is on
drive d: in folder  shares\Oranges.  Later you have to add a third disk
and you move d:\shares\Oranges to drive F:\MoreShares\Oranges and
reshare it as Apples.  No one on the network knows you moved the
physical location.  Netserver is the application running on i5/OS or
OS400 that provides shares just like your windows servers.  You can map
drive X: to \\fileserver\apples so you see it as x: and tell windows to
use a different profile / password combination, but you have to change
that profiles password you lose the mappings.  If your user profiles
match, and the passwords match, you can just run to the share
\\fileserver\apples.



Christopher Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.
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Chris,

When you talk about sharing the folder with NetServer, what do you mean?
Do you mean creating a mapped drive through Windows?  That's what gives
me the synchronization problem to begin with.  Thanks for the prompt
response.