Shared directories

A PC accesses files located on a z/OS® system through one or more shared directories on the z/OS system. Distributed File Service administrators make files available to SMB clients by creating shared directories. A shared directory is given a share name and specifies a directory path name in a file system. Any directory can be shared with clients. To access shared directories from a PC, clients can map a network drive by choosing an available drive letter and mapping it to a computer name and a share name, or they can use Universal Naming Convention (UNC) mapping. (See Accessing data for more information about UNC mapping.) The computer name is the name of the Distributed File Service SMB server and the share name is the name of the shared directory created on that server. After this is done, the remote files can be read or written as though they were local files.