Advantages of DFS over NAS Solutions

Can anyone lemme know the the advantages of using DFS over any NAS solutions
for file services.
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Buddi

Hi

> Can anyone lemme know the the advantages of using DFS over any NAS
> solutions for file services.

I don't know if all of them are "advantages" or only available in DFS ...
but, they're my reasons for using DFS:

- it is AD integrated (no extra work for replication / backup of structure)
- shares and access rights are based on standard Windows security system
(easy to handle in a domain)
- seperates replication from the namespace
- allows me to use every share on every server as DFS link
- problems and warnings are listed in the Windows eventlogs
- it's for "free", if you already have the servers
- I have a lot of experience with DFS and now that I fully understand the
system and that I think it is working (it wasn't always working before 2003
R2), I'd like to profit from all my work I had before :-)

Rudolf

So, DFS with 2003 and 2008 not recommended, but 2003 R2 and 2008 work ok?

"Rudolf Meier" wrote:

> Hi
>
> > Can anyone lemme know the the advantages of using DFS over any NAS
> > solutions for file services.
>
> I don't know if all of them are "advantages" or only available in DFS ...
> but, they're my reasons for using DFS:
>
> - it is AD integrated (no extra work for replication / backup of structure)
> - shares and access rights are based on standard Windows security system
> (easy to handle in a domain)
> - seperates replication from the namespace
> - allows me to use every share on every server as DFS link
> - problems and warnings are listed in the Windows eventlogs
> - it's for "free", if you already have the servers
> - I have a lot of experience with DFS and now that I fully understand the
> system and that I think it is working (it wasn't always working before 2003
> R2), I'd like to profit from all my work I had before :-)
>
> Rudolf
>
>