On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com wrote:
--On Monday, September 15, 2008 10:05 AM +0200 Friedrich Clausen fred@derf.nl wrote:
I have most assuredly not told windows to try and use a Web folder on the CentOS file server called "/share1", just the CIFS share.
Apparently Windows will search multiple "providers" for the share string you pass, and the successful results are then sorted by provider priority.
Ah yes, I believe you are right. Thanks for the info!
Regards,
Fred.
When an application tries to open a file that exists on a network, the I/O manager passes the request to a system component that is named the Multiple UNC Provider (MUP). MUP sits logically above all the redirectors. When a network path is passed to MUP, it polls all the registered redirectors to determine whether they understand the path. The redirectors in turn contact the server to establish if the path is valid for the specific protocol. If the server can satisfy the connection, the redirector will return success back the MUP. If not, the redirector returns a failure. All the future file I/O requests for this file are passed to the redirector that accepted the path. If more than one redirector accepts the path, MUP picks the one with the highest priority, as defined in the registry.
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