Distributed File System
Overview of the Distributed File System technology.
To develop Distributed File System, you need these headers:
For programming guidance for this technology, see:
Enumerations
| DFS_NAMESPACE_VERSION_ORIGIN Identifies the origin of DFS namespace version information. |
Functions
| NetDfsAdd Creates a new Distributed File System (DFS) link or adds targets to an existing link in a DFS namespace. |
| NetDfsAddFtRoot Creates a new domain-based Distributed File System (DFS) namespace. If the namespace already exists, the function adds the specified root target to it. |
| NetDfsAddRootTarget Creates a domain-based or stand-alone DFS namespace or adds a new root target to an existing domain-based namespace. |
| NetDfsAddStdRoot Creates a new stand-alone Distributed File System (DFS) namespace. |
| NetDfsEnum Enumerates the Distributed File System (DFS) namespaces hosted on a server or DFS links of a namespace hosted by a server. |
| NetDfsGetClientInfo Retrieves information about a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link from the cache maintained by the DFS client. |
| NetDfsGetFtContainerSecurity Retrieves the security descriptor of the container object for the domain-based DFS namespaces in the specified Active Directory domain. |
| NetDfsGetInfo Retrieves information about a specified Distributed File System (DFS) root or link in a DFS namespace. |
| NetDfsGetSecurity Retrieves the security descriptor for the root object of the specified DFS namespace. |
| NetDfsGetStdContainerSecurity Retrieves the security descriptor for the container object of the specified stand-alone DFS namespace. |
| NetDfsGetSupportedNamespaceVersion Determines the supported metadata version number. |
| NetDfsMove Renames or moves a DFS link. |
| NetDfsRemove Removes a Distributed File System (DFS) link or a specific link target of a DFS link in a DFS namespace. When removing a specific link target, the link itself is removed if the last link target of the link is removed. |
| NetDfsRemoveFtRoot Removes the specified root target from a domain-based Distributed File System (DFS) namespace. |
| NetDfsRemoveFtRootForced Removes the specified root target from a domain-based Distributed File System (DFS) namespace, even if the root target server is offline. |
| NetDfsRemoveRootTarget Removes a DFS root target from a domain-based DFS namespace. If the root target is the last root target in the DFS namespace, this function removes the DFS namespace. This function can also be used to remove a stand-alone DFS namespace. |
| NetDfsRemoveStdRoot Deletes a stand-alone Distributed File System (DFS) namespace. |
| NetDfsSetClientInfo Modifies information about a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link in the cache maintained by the DFS client. |
| NetDfsSetFtContainerSecurity Sets the security descriptor of the container object for the domain-based DFS namespaces in the specified Active Directory domain. |
| NetDfsSetInfo Sets or modifies information about a specific Distributed File System (DFS) root, root target, link, or link target. |
| NetDfsSetSecurity Sets the security descriptor for the root object of the specified DFS namespace. |
| NetDfsSetStdContainerSecurity Sets the security descriptor for the container object of the specified stand-alone DFS namespace. |
Structures
| DFS_GET_PKT_ENTRY_STATE_ARG Input buffer used with the FSCTL_DFS_GET_PKT_ENTRY_STATE control code. |
| DFS_INFO_1 Contains the name of a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_100 Contains a comment associated with a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_101 Describes the state of storage on a DFS root, link, root target, or link target. |
| DFS_INFO_102 Contains a time-out value to associate with a Distributed File System (DFS) root or a link in a named DFS root. |
| DFS_INFO_103 Contains properties that set specific behaviors for a DFS root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_104 Contains the priority of a DFS root target or link target. |
| DFS_INFO_105 Contains information about a DFS root or link, including comment, state, time-out, and DFS behaviors specified by property flags. |
| DFS_INFO_106 Contains the storage state and priority for a DFS root target or link target. This structure is only for use with the NetDfsSetInfo function. |
| DFS_INFO_107 Contains information about a DFS root or link, including the comment, state, time-out, property flags, and link reparse point security descriptor. |
| DFS_INFO_150 Contains the security descriptor for a DFS link's reparse point. |
| DFS_INFO_2 Contains information about a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link. This structure contains the name, status, and number of DFS targets for the root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_200 Contains the name of a domain-based Distributed File System (DFS) namespace. |
| DFS_INFO_3 Contains information about a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link. This structure contains the name, status, number of DFS targets, and information about each target of the root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_300 Contains the name and type (domain-based or stand-alone) of a DFS namespace. |
| DFS_INFO_4 Contains information about a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link. This structure contains the name, status, GUID, time-out, number of targets, and information about each target of the root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_5 Contains information about a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link. This structure contains the name, status, GUID, time-out, namespace/root/link properties, metadata size, and number of targets for the root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_50 Contains the DFS metadata version and capabilities of an existing DFS namespace. |
| DFS_INFO_6 Contains information about a Distributed File System (DFS) root or link. This structure contains the name, status, GUID, time-out, namespace/root/link properties, metadata size, number of targets, and information about each target of the root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_7 Contains information about a DFS namespace. This structure contains the version GUID for the metadata for the namespace. |
| DFS_INFO_8 Contains the name, status, GUID, time-out, property flags, metadata size, DFS target information, and link reparse point security descriptor for a root or link. |
| DFS_INFO_9 Contains the name, status, GUID, time-out, property flags, metadata size, DFS target information, link reparse point security descriptor, and a list of DFS targets for a root or link. |
| DFS_STORAGE_INFO Contains information about a DFS root or link target in a DFS namespace or from the cache maintained by the DFS client. |
| DFS_STORAGE_INFO_1 Contains information about a DFS target, including the DFS target server name and share name as well as the target's state and priority. |
| DFS_SUPPORTED_NAMESPACE_VERSION_INFO Contains version information for a DFS namespace. |
| DFS_TARGET_PRIORITY Contains the priority class and rank of a specific DFS target. |