Aliases Created When You Browse

If you browse servers in Network Neighborhood, the Solstice NFS Client Network Provider creates server aliases for all active NFS servers on your subnet. Network Provider first broadcasts to the NFS network servers on the local subnet, and any servers you have added. For each network server that responds, Network Provider translates the NFS name into a server alias. After server aliases are created, the list of responding servers is displayed in Network Neighborhood.

When you browse a particular server, Network Provider creates share aliases for the server's exported file systems. At this point, you can connect to those exports using the UNC format. When you browse a subdirectory within an export, a share alias is created only if you map a drive to the subdirectory. The share alias corresponds to the name of the last subdirectory in the path.