[GRLUG] Amerisure ditches its PCs, goes all virtual

[Ben DeMott]

Never used DFS - I thought you had to have a special type of Server
2003 license to run it? - Can't remember why we didn't where I used to
work.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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