--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. >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.