Vista - DFS - practical uses ?

Hi, I have a site where they want to use DFS shares so that users at both
sites over a slow WAN connection can access files quickly.

Question.

Is this best suited to scenarios where one user might commute between both
sites and want his/her files readily available for quick access ?

Or how about a number of users all frequently wanting to share and open the
same documents from both sites.
Ie several users may all want to open the same documents, would this be a
good idea ?
What happens if several users open the same document and make changes to it
? whose change is kept and how is this managed ?
How does the file locking work ?

Jim.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:05:13 -0000, "Jim" <jim@newsgroup> wrote:
Two sites presumably :-)

For home folder etc. where only one user access the set of file this works well.
Last write wins. DFS detects this a move the other changed copied to
"Conflicted". An admin needs to resolve this issue.
There is none (except the normal single copy stuff) so if two users open the
same copy there is the usual "in use" warning but if they open copies on two
replicas they get no warning.

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Dave Mills
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