06-23-2008 09:28 PM
It may be a strange question but can I preposition hidden shares on a WAAS device? I have tried manually entering in the share name in the "root share and directories" part of a preposition directive in the format /sharename$/
It seems that the preposition copies the files into the WAE's CIFS cache, but once I do that I can't access the files in the hidden share anymore.
My other question is once I preposition some files to my WAE is there a way that I can selectively delete items from the CIFS cache (I am thinking of deleting the files in that particular share if possible as a troubleshooting step).
Regards,
Peter
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06-27-2008 02:15 AM
Peter,
Yes, WAAS will pre-position hidden shares. Can you please elaborate on not being able to access the share after pre-position?
To your second question, there is currently no way to delete specific files from the CIFS object cache (other than deleting the file on the origin file server (from a session through the WAFS Edge).
Regards,
Zach
06-27-2008 02:15 AM
Peter,
Yes, WAAS will pre-position hidden shares. Can you please elaborate on not being able to access the share after pre-position?
To your second question, there is currently no way to delete specific files from the CIFS object cache (other than deleting the file on the origin file server (from a session through the WAFS Edge).
Regards,
Zach
06-27-2008 02:39 AM
Zach,
The files in the hidden share that we pre-positioned were for SMS packages. Once we pre-positioned them we were no longer able to deploy those packages to clients. I am a little suspicious that the real issue is with SMS - not the files themselves.
On the subject of deleting specific files in the CIFS object cache - is there any way to actually SEE the files that are in the cache, rather than deleting them?
Thanks for your help.
Peter
06-27-2008 03:39 AM
There is no way to view the contents of the cache.
Zach
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