--On Monday, September 15, 2008 10:05 AM +0200 Friedrich Clausen
<fred@xxxxxxx> 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.
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