Access Connect has traditionally only included the ability to share files and folders located on the Windows server where Access Connect is installed, or on storage that is directly attached to that server. A folder within this local storage can be selected as an Access Connect volume and made available to Macintosh users as a standard Mac AFP file share.
With the introduction of “Network Reshare” in version 8.0, Access Connect now includes the ability to create file share volumes that point to folders located on other servers and NAS devices on your network. Macintosh clients continue to connect to Access Connect using the standard AFP file sharing protocol, while Access Connect utilizes the SMB/CIFS file sharing protocol to access files that are requested by Mac users from remote servers and NAS systems. By doing so, Mac users retain all the benefits of AFP file sharing while gaining access to resources that have traditionally only been available through SMB/Windows file sharing.
Access Connect Network Reshare allows access to both standard SMB/CIFS file shares, as well as Distributed File System (DFS) file shares. More details on Network Reshare of DFS resources can be found in the Knowledge base article here.