On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 05:34:52 PM Trey Dockendorf wrote:
That will probably be the best option while we move these sites to a CMS. The users are accustomed to using Windows drive letters that are mapped by our AD to access their content, and I'd like to have to leave that intact for now.
Just as a pointer, have you looked at some form of WebDAV? Many CMS's (Plone, for instance) can do WebDAV out of the box, and it's rather transparent, especially with a frontend like Enfold Desktop. You could then migrate one user at a time, even, if you stage it properly.
It seems to be more efficient and at least as secure as SMB/CIFS shares are. And requires many fewer network 'concessions' to the protocol involved....
On the first page of a google search for 'WebDAV "mapped drive letter"' I find: http://systembash.com/content/map-drive-letter-sftp-ssh-review/ which looks pretty interesting to me....