What operating system are these users running? If you are running > nearly all Microsoft Windows machine, you probably want to at least look > at Microsoft's Distributed FileSystem (Dfs.) It allows for multi-master > read-write replicas and a user-defined site topology to optimize > replication and allowing clients to find the closest replica. Be aware > that Dfs is not encrypted and is not a true WAN filesystem. Microsoft > recomends using IPsec to secure connections. There is also no caching > by default (one would need to setup Offline Folders functionality to > cache files locally on the computer.)
Thanks for replying! I had looked at DFS, but we currently run almost entirely on Linux servers and I would like to keep it that way. With the licensing fees, I doubt that would even get approved. Also, with our 50 home users...using CIFS over a VPN would be pretty painful. From what I understand, OpenAFS is a more efficient WAN protocol (using WebDAV now, which is much more efficient than CIFS). We may eventually use terminal server or a remote desktop solution, but using CIFS over a WAN would almost make that a necessity. --Bill -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/New-to-OpenAFS-tp16093093p16180548.html Sent from the OpenAFS - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
