[GRLUG] Amerisure ditches its PCs, goes all virtual

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 11:31 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> 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.

I have DFS on Samba.   It works very well.