You can move seldom-used files to offline storage, but in Windows 2000, you have another option when server hard drives begin to fill up: you can build a Distributed File System (DFS) tree.

Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article ...

The Distributed file system (Dfs), when properly implemented, can help your users get where they want to go. But its usefulness doesn’t stop there. By Bill Boswell; 08/01/2002; ...

Simplify Resource Navigation With Dfs. The Distributed file system (Dfs), when properly implemented, can help your users get where they want to go. But its usefulness doesn’t stop there. By Bill ...

A few months ago, I wrote an article entitled "Building a Windows 2000 Distributed File System." In it, I talked about how a distributed file system (DFS) can make files and directories that are ...

We do not use DFS replicas or replicate any data using DFS/FRS. One of our sites clients are continually connecting to a non-local server when they use the DFS share name. The DFS root and the ...

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Many organizations use Windows’ Distributed File System (DFS) to replicate certain shared folders or to make accessing user directories more straightforward (after all, \\DFS\ Users\Don is easier to ...

A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...