Once a Gateway Server machine and one or more NFS clients are configured according to the instructions in Configuring Gateway Server Machines and Configuring NFS Clients to Access DFS, users of the NFS clients can access data in the DFS filespace. Users can access files and directories in DFS by full /.../cellname/fs path names or by abbreviated path names that use the /: link to the DFS filespace. The following are equivalent path names for the file myfile in the DFS filespace of the DCE cell abc.com:
/.../abc.com/fs/myfile
/:/myfile
All users have unauthenticated access to DFS. Users who have DCE accounts can authenticate to their DCE identities for authenticated access to DFS. The following topics provide more information about these two types of access.
When accessing DFS data from a DFS client, the DFS Cache Manager caches local copies of files accessed from File Server machines. When accessing DFS data from an NFS client, NFS background I/O daemons cache local copies of files accessed via the NFS server. The caching of information by the NFS daemons can affect how quickly changes you make to data in DFS become visible to other users.
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