[GRLUG] Amerisure ditches its PCs, goes all virtual

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 11:31:34 EDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com> wrote:
> Even with shared storage (SAMBA) -> Has Microsoft provided a way to
> 'router' a samba share, so multiple servers can serve the same files -
> I imagine this is incredibly expensive or requires a 3rd party (once
> again 'Hacked') solution.

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_%28Microsoft%29

I set up a DFS share on our Win2K server to contain the installers for
the boostrap install set. (Useful for every time we wipe and reinstall
a workstation or set up another boot for another OS version.) Samba
supposedly supports it, but I haven't looked into that.
-- 
:wq


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