The File Access application built into UAG has fantastic capabilities, but also some limitations. One of these is lack of support for DFS shares. By this we mean that you will not even see DFS shares as they just do not appear. Technically, the application can connect to DFS shares, but the admin tool is unable to enumerate them, so you cannot add them. There is, however, a custom way of forcing File Access to use them. This entails editing the XML file which contains the list of servers and shares you selected with the admin tool.
All changes made in the File Access UI are written to this file in real time, so don't be alarmed if you see the contents change when the file is opened in an editor.
The process of editing the file is as follows:
1. Navigate to your UAG install directory, under
\von\fileaccess
.2. Open the UAG management console.
3. Backup the
ShareAccesscfg.xml
file and then using a text editing tool, open the original.4. Within the
<Servers...