Netapp (a CIFS/NFS NAS solution) has the ability to emulate a physical device and present itself as a local drive to a Windows box over the network. It involves a Windows client side driver as well as some server side stuff to do this. To Windows, the drive appears to be local and not a mapped drive (you can format it/etc) Are there any initiatives to do something like this with Samba?
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