Microsoft® Windows® Internals: Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, 4th Edition

Multiple Redirector Support

Applications can examine or access resources on remote systems in two ways. One way is by using the UNC standard with Windows functions to directly address a remote resource; a second way is by using the Windows Networking (WNet) API to enumerate computers and resources that those computers export for sharing. Both these approaches use the capabilities of a redirector to find their way to the network. (CIFS is described in Chapter 12.) As we stated earlier, to access CIFS servers from a client, Microsoft supplies a CIFS redirector, which has a kernel-mode component called the redirector FSD and a user-mode component called the Workstation service. Microsoft also makes available a redirector that can access resources ...