Sharing a Windows mapped drive

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Bruce Chidester picture Bruce Chidester · Jul 27, 2011 · Viewed 36.5k times · Source

I have a software archiving solution which requires a Windows share for the client but I want to actually store the files through samba on a Linux host.

This dependency requires that I have a Windows front-end to my Linux file archive.

When I map the Linux Samba share on the client as a drive, I cannot "share" it for the server to see.

I tried making a shortcut as well, but no sharing options

Is there a way to create a Windows folder that can be shared and as well, be able to write files to a Samba network share?

Answer

Neoaurel picture Neoaurel · Jul 28, 2011

Yes you can !

On W2008R2: Go into

Server Manager -Roles --Install File Services ---Install File Server & Distributed File System (DFS) Namespaces and Replication

Now you can go on Administrative tool - DFS Management - and in namespace you can add you share map drive

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