I'm using MS Dfs right now, it works but it's a total misnomer. It's
actually an automounter that allows you create a logical name space for
storage space. Sun automounter or amd does it years ago.
Anyone has a NT server on his desk can download it from M$ website for
free.
--Mike
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 28 20:03:55 1998
> On May 28, 2:56pm, James Roberts wrote:
>
> > > I believe most people on this mailing list use and like AFS. It has
> puzzled
> > > me a long time why AFS has not taken off on the Internet. Other inferior
> > > network file systems, such as NFS and Microsoft Dfs, are rushing to define
> > > themselves as *the* Internet file system.
> >
> > Hasn't Microsoft DFS been mostly vaporware so far?
>
> As far as I know, Microsoft Dfs has been vaporware in terms of server
> manageability and scalability. But I think they are doing real work in the
> area of performance (those AndX stuff), file locking, and security.
>
> > Actually, I believe everything you mentioned is precisely IBM's vision for
> > their DFS, which is in large part how their Web-DFS came about.
>
> As much as I like to see DCE/DFS succeed (I was involved in the DCE design/
> development in the early 90's), I think it would be a wrong weapon to be used
> on the Internet file service market. DCE/DFS might be a good candidate for
> intranets, where tight OS integrations in a more controlled environment may
> warrant the price of the DCE complexity/baggages. For Internet, AFS is a much
> better starting point, IMHO.
>
> > CERFnet has an
> > implementation similar to what you described--it's working very well from
> > what I understand, but it's limited to just their ISP, and due to the
> challenge
> > of having to educate their users, their implementation of DFS is still
> largely
> > on the backend. I think this is also the vision of The Open Group's "IT
> > DialTone," if I'm not mistaken.
>
> The CERFnet model is not similar to what I described if DFS was only in
> the backend, if it is just limited to their ISP, and if users have to access
> the files through browsers.
>
>
> I don't think AFS has much time left before the door to the mass Internet
> file serving market close on it. We need Windows 9x clients, and we need to
> give them to home users free. Get some ISP's sign up with the AFS file serving
> business, and let the ball start rolling ...
>
> Disclaimer: I only speak for myself here, not for my company.
>
>
>
> --
> Shyh-Wei Luan
>
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Mike Wei
Collective Technologies/PSA
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
