ADS vs DFS

[Guest]

Hi,
While we can publish folders in active directory, why DFS is required. As
far as my knowledge goes both are used to centralise the shares so that it is
to locate the shares. I am really not sure why DFS is requred while ADS is
doing the job.

Regards,
Srinivas Acharya

 

[Matjaz Ladava [MVP]]

DFS will enable you to have server-name independent shares. This way your
shares will be in the form of \\yourdomain.pri\DFSRoot\sharename instead of
\\servername\sharename this will ease the process if you at one point decide
to change server. you can also use FRS with DFS to have multiple instances
of your shares on different servers. On the other hand you only publish
shares in AD. The best thing to do is to have DFS shares published in AD.

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Regards

Matja¾ Ladava, ladava.com
MCSA, MCSE, MCT
Microsoft MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
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[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

FYI:

This link has loads of info on FRS and DFS.
www.microsoft.com/frs

Regards,
/Jimmy
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Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
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[Guest]

Hi,
Thanks for replying.As far as my knowledge goes, with ADS, I can also have
multiple instances of shares on multiple servers acting as AD contollers.
This is possible with the help of ADS replication. Here shares are not
specific to one server. I access the shares by domain only because the shares
in the directory. Whatever you have mentioned is possible IN AD also. That is
what I feel.
Please comment.
Regards,
Srinivas Acharya