uniform access to shares across network

At our company, we have several heavily used servers that each host a
different file share:

\\server1\customers
\\server2\products
\\server3\services

What I'd like to be able to do is address each share from a common name,
like "main", and not have to remember what server is hosting the share:

\\main\customers --> \\server1\customers
\\main\products --> \\server2\products
\\main\services --> \\server3\services

This would also let me move a share to a different server without users
having to know about the change.

The only way I've found to do this is to actually set up a server called
'main' and have it mount those share and re-export them. This works, but
performance really suffers.

For our Unix systems, we're able to configure automounters to automatically
make sure that /net/customers is mounted from server1:/vol/customers, etc.

What's the right way to do this in Windows? The machines are part of a
domain, if that helps.

Thanks for any tips, pointers.
-UM

UKM,
That's DFS,
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...ew/dfsfaq.mspx
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.com

"UKM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> At our company, we have several heavily used servers that each host a
> different file share:
>
> \\server1\customers
> \\server2\products
> \\server3\services
>
> What I'd like to be able to do is address each share from a common name,
> like "main", and not have to remember what server is hosting the share:
>
> \\main\customers --> \\server1\customers
> \\main\products --> \\server2\products
> \\main\services --> \\server3\services
>
> This would also let me move a share to a different server without users
> having to know about the change.
>
> The only way I've found to do this is to actually set up a server called
> 'main' and have it mount those share and re-export them. This works, but
> performance really suffers.
>
> For our Unix systems, we're able to configure automounters to
> automatically
> make sure that /net/customers is mounted from server1:/vol/customers, etc.
>
> What's the right way to do this in Windows? The machines are part of a
> domain, if that helps.
>
> Thanks for any tips, pointers.
> -UM
>