On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > --On Monday, September 15, 2008 10:05 AM +0200 Friedrich Clausen > <fred at 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. > >> From <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832161> > >> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >