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Now that our main user block is all on Active Directory, I've been asked to look into Distributed File System.  A bit of background: We have several Windows 2003 Cluster Servers each providing file shares (for illustration USERS, GROUPS and PRINT).  These present friendly names to the punters and hold a big ol' pile of enterprise-scale goodness.

Now we're on AD, it would be really neat to bring everything together into one domain namespace.  I would like to present users with the following: 

• \\exe.nhs.uk\fredbloggs$ (currently on \\USERS\fredbloggs$)
• \\exe.nhs.uk\cardiology$ (currently on \\GROUPS\cardiology$)
• \\exe.nhs.uk\printer1 (currently on \\PRINT\printer1)

It's super-clean, makes life easy for users and support staff as well, and completely insulates the users from the hardware.  But I have a sneaking feeling that, since these are already cluster resources, we can't do this without presenting the cluster name (or some made-up fakesimile of it) in the name, eg, \\exe.nhs.us\users\fredbloggs$.  That really has no benefit to us over the existing \\users\fredbloggs$ arrangement, and in fact has disbenefits, since the clusters auto-share their resources and the DFS resources don't so we'd have to go backwards to handmade (and therefore error-prone and slow-to-create) shares.

I'm thinking that in our situation, what I want is not possible, and what is possible is no better than what we have.  Am I wrong?