You can issue DEFINE REPOSITORY on a local (host) machine, but not on a remote (client) machine. To make your repository available to remote users, perform the following steps: 1. Ask your system manager to make the ALTERNATE_ROOT directory a DFS access point. This action makes the directory and subdirectories known to a DFS server. 2. Issue the DEFINE REPOSITORY command, including an ALTERNATE_ ROOT parameter. This action permanently associates the file directories with the anchor directory. You should not explicitly refer to the file directories again. For example: DEFINE REPOSITORY DEV1:[PROJECT.CDD] ALTERNATE_ROOT DEV2:[PROJECT.FILES] For backup purposes, you can choose to move your anchor directory to the DFS disk where you store your file directories. In this case, you specify the same logical name for both anchor and ALTERNATE_ROOT directories. For example: DEFINE REPOSITORY DEV1:[PROJECT.CDD] ALTERNATE_ROOT DEV1:[PROJECT.FILES] To access a repository from a host machine, perform the following steps: 1. Ask your system manager to make the DFS access point available on your system. During the DFS mount, the manager identifies the access point by the ALTERNATE_ROOT logical name. For example, if the DEFINE REPOSITORY command issued at the host machine referred to ALTERNATE_ROOT DEV1:[PROJECT.FILES], the manager refers to DEV1. 2. Issue a SET DEFAULT command that includes the full node name of the anchor directory. For example: SET DEFAULT A_NODE::DEV1:[PROJECT.CDD] 3. Review the default protection you receive on file directories. DFS does not support remote specification of file ACLs. You must make any modifications on the host system.