[Cvsnt] ntserver and aliasses

[Daniel Lohmann]

----- Original Message -----
From: <jml at nykredit.dk>
To: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nothing-on.tv>
Cc: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: Vedr.: Re: [Cvsnt] ntserver and aliasses


>
> We're still on NT4, so there's no way out for me than at this time.
>

This should be possible with DFS (distributed file service), which is AFAIK
a service to build a logical tree-like structure of shares which are
physically somewhere on the network.

AFAIK DFS is also available for NT4 (Server?) free of charge.

Daniel



>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am using cvsnt with the ntserver access method and would like to have
> > some kind of alias (a logical name like "ourcvs") for the
> ntserver-machine.
> > All NT-servers in my company are named from a naming scheme as NKM18xxx
> > where xxx is a unique number. This is the machines IP-alias as well. I
> can
> > make a new IP-alias, and this works fine if I use the pserver access
> method
> > (ie. :pserver:me at ourcvs:d:/source).
> > But if I try with ntserver (:ntserver:ourcvs:d:/source) I get an error
> > message "Error connecting to server on \\ourcvs...."
> >
> > I guess this is because the ntserver access method is not using tcp/ip
> but
> > somthing like smb?
> >
>
> I know you can make aliases in samba, but I suspect your domain
> controllers are not Linux boxes :-)  NT4 definately can't do it, but
> it's possible that Active Directory can do something like it... you'd
> need to find an AD expert to answer that one, though.
>
> Tony
>
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