Not to be a nit-picker, but its Dfs (emphasis on the lower-case "fs"). DFS is copyright Transarc/IBM and a *way* different product.

One thing to note is that Dfs in NT 4.0 is a single point of failure. While the Dfs root can be replicated, clients must mount it with \host1\Dfsroot or \host2\Dfsroot, but if the host is down you are hosed.

In Win2K; however, the Dfs information is stored in Active Directory and can find an available replica of the root when the path \NtDomain\dfsroot is given. Pretty slick, even for Microsoft. Too bad they're way behind the times, but it seems like our Domain Controllers will likely be Dfs servers with replicas of all our NetApp mounted data.

Anyone had any exerience with Dfs2K? Any + or - impressions would be great!

-- Jeff

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 03:43:51PM -0500, pharrigan@usgs.gov wrote:

You are thinking of DFS (Distributed File System) available with NT 4.0 server. We use automount extensively and I find DFS very similar in design and function. We use DFS in production "with good success" according to the "NT camp".

                Darrell Fuhriman                                                                                    
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                09/29/00 12:57 PM                                                                                   

All this cifs homedir talk has got me thinking. I recall that there was a Microsoft made product which was essentially an automounter for NT.

Does anyone know the name of the product in question, and have any experience with it?

I would love to be able to point users at one location, and have them find the right toaster.

Darrell