What is Distributed File System?

A. Distributed File System (or Dfs) is a new tool for NTserver that was not completed in time for inclusion as part of NT 4.0, but isnow available for download. It basically allows Administrators to simulate asingle server share environment that actually exists over several servers,basically a link to a share on another server that looks like a subdirectory ofthe main server.

This allows a single view for all of the shares on your network, which couldthen simplify your backup procedures as you would just backup the root share,and Dfs would take care of actually gathering all the information from theother servers across the network.

You do not have to have a single tree (Dfs directorystructures are called trees), but rather could have a separate tree fordifferent purposes, i.e. one for each department, but each tree could haveexactly the same structure (sales, info. etc).

For more information on DFS seehttp://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/winfeatures/NTSDistrFile/AdminGuide.asp