no, this was for CIFS. But currently people are going to a main folder that has this public one inside. They will continue to access the data in the same way because they're going in from the top level and nothing should have to be re-pointed. But instead of having the public data folder in that CIFS share I have made another volume, copied the data to it, and then left the link behind with the same name pointing to the new volume. This frees up a lot of space because it is now going through the shortcut and writing to the other volume. It seems to work fine and I can't see any negatives on the surface....but I'm not an expert. Basically I'm using it the way DFS does but the top level namespace was already there and then I'm redirecting them from within that.