DFS newbie

I have a situation and an wondering if DFS could solve my problem. First of
all, I no nothing at all about DFS other than the few articles which I have
read. My situation is this. I have a Server 2003 Standard. I have 2 data
drives, E: and F:. On my F: drive I have a shared folder called "Public".
I am running VERY low on disk space on my F: drive. There is a folder under
the "Public" folder which I would like to move to my E: drive but it still
needs to "appear" as if it is under the "Public" folder/share. Can DFS do
this for me? Thanks.

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:13:45 -0400, "Mark" <> wrote:

> I have a situation and an wondering if DFS could solve my problem. First of
>all, I no nothing at all about DFS other than the few articles which I have
>read. My situation is this. I have a Server 2003 Standard. I have 2 data
>drives, E: and F:. On my F: drive I have a shared folder called "Public".
>I am running VERY low on disk space on my F: drive. There is a folder under
>the "Public" folder which I would like to move to my E: drive but it still
>needs to "appear" as if it is under the "Public" folder/share. Can DFS do
>this for me? Thanks.
>

No.

DFS does not let you merge the contents of two folders. Its purpose is to let
you use a name for the share that is server independent, i.e. I have
serverA\share but can call it Domain\root\share. Later I can move the share to
serverB and share it as NewShare but still call it Domain\root\share so I do not
need to change any clients to know about the name change/server move.

--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.

Use juction may solve your problem.
You can reference
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896768.aspx

"Mark" wrote:

> I have a situation and an wondering if DFS could solve my problem. First of
> all, I no nothing at all about DFS other than the few articles which I have
> read. My situation is this. I have a Server 2003 Standard. I have 2 data
> drives, E: and F:. On my F: drive I have a shared folder called "Public".
> I am running VERY low on disk space on my F: drive. There is a folder under
> the "Public" folder which I would like to move to my E: drive but it still
> needs to "appear" as if it is under the "Public" folder/share. Can DFS do
> this for me? Thanks.
>
>
>