8.4 Providing Users with a Merged View of the Files in a Standard Pair

Dynamic File Services allows users to access files on both the primary and secondary paths via a network share that you create for the primary path. When users access the share, they see a merged view of the file trees for the primary path and the secondary path. The merged view gives users access to all of their files in a pair.

Use Windows Network Sharing and Security to create a network share on a Dynamic File Services pair’s primary storage location. When users map a drive on their computers to the share, they can see a merged view of the files stored on the pair.

To create a network share:

  1. Use Windows Network Sharing and Security to create a network share on the primary storage location.

    See the Microsoft Windows documentation for information about how to set up network sharing on the computers where DynamicFS is running.

  2. Map a drive to the network share, and verify that the users can see a merged view of the two locations that make up the pair.