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, ...

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; ...

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; We’ve all encountered ...

When data are requested, a distributed file system (DFS) converts the file names into the physical location of the files so they can be accessed. See Dfs. Advertisement.

Distributed File System (DFS) is a replicated file share across multiple servers and locations to boost uptime and reduce access issues related to geography like latency and bandwidth. In this ...

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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 ...

Now, a few weeks ago I mentioned the improvements in the Distributed File System (DFS) with Windows Server 2003. Note, though, that it’s the “distributed” part (an application or service ...

I'm told Dist. File system will do this, so I tried it out. I made a new root and mapped it to the share on my PC behind the firewall (we'll say \\waubpc\DFS\) and the name of the NAT server is ...