A distributed file system (DFS) enables clients to access file storage from multiple hosts through a computer network as if they were accessing local storage. Files are spread across multiple storage ...

Think about how users normally access data. Normally, you map a letter to a share on a server as part of a logon script or other policy. If users have to access multiple shares on a server, they have ...

We're using DFS for standardizing access to our file servers. I am looking into the possibility of using DFS replication as well but I have something that, I believe, is going to be a problem. One of ...

We have a need for users in distributed locations to work on large multimedia files. Right now these files are available to users in a big CIFS filetree. Although high-bandwidth VPN connections are ...