[GRLUG] Amerisure ditches its PCs, goes all virtual

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 11:37 -0400, Ben DeMott wrote:
> Never used DFS - I thought you had to have a special type of Server
> 2003 license to run it?

I have no idea, I've never run a Windows file-server.  File serving with
Windows is just nuts [Why *pay* for a file-server???]

DFS works well with Samba and is trivial to configure.

> - 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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