`<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Lawrence Giam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paladinemishakal@gmail.com" target="_blank">paladinemishakal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jim,<div><br></div><div>Can you explain more on this? You share out the zVols via iSCSI to the Windows machine, so on the windows machine, you attach that zVols as a disk?</div><div><br></div><div>But in my situation, I have alot of smb shares serve from the NAS and doing it your way, would I be then face with drive letter limitation?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would create one or 2 large zVols, share them via iSCSI to your Windows machines. Then I'd format those as NTFS. You can then create folders in those disk LUNs. Create something like this:</div><div><br></div><div>D:\shares\share1</div><div>D:\shares\share2</div><div>D:\shares\etc</div><div>E:\shares\share3</div><div>etc</div><div><br></div><div>Then, CIFS share each one of the "shareX" folders. You can then tell DFS which shares on your server to use for a DFS namespace:</div><div><br></div><div>\\server\share1</div><div>\\server\share2</div><div>\\server\share3</div><div><br></div><div>Point DFS at those CIFS shares.</div></div></div></div>
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