Microsoft's DFS File Server deployment brings absolute advantages

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Advantages of DFS File Server deployment

1. Use DFS for single-point access

1. Problems faced by enterprises:

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In most environments, shared resources are stored in various shared folders on multiple servers. To access resources, you must remember the path of multiple shared folders, which is inconvenient.

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Because multiple servers share too many resources and lack centralized management, management brings too much inconvenience.

2. General Solution:

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When you access Shared resources on multiple servers, you must enter the IP address or computer name of each server, for example

// 172.16.3.5 // or benet-pc1/



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When managing shared resources, the network administrator needs to connect to each server for management, which brings inconvenience and security risks to the server.

3. Implementation in the ad environment:

(1) create a domain-based DFS root directory on any Domain Member Server. The specific creation method is as follows: "START" → "Program" → "Distributed File System" → "operation" →
"Create root directory" → create by following the new root directory wizard.

Note: 1. Select the root directory type as the domain root directory. (The domain root directory supports automatic copying and
Use Active Directory to store DFS configurations .)

2. After the root directory is created, create a new connection and set
Mount all the shared directories.

3. You can access all other mounts by accessing the DFS root directory.

. As shown in (1. Resources of each department
On the servers of each department. Only logically connected together.

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Figure (1)

4. Pay attention to the folder permission settings of each department.
For example, if you are an employee of the finance department and want to access internal information of the manager department, the result shown in figure (2) is displayed.

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Figure (2)

(2) The administrator can publish the DFS root directory in AD and manage the DFS root directory to manage the files shared on other servers.

Note: If the enterprise is large and there are many employees in each department, you can create a domain-based DFS root directory for each department.

4. Advantages of AD installation:

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Users can access the server through the root directory without having to remember too many server paths, which brings a lot of convenience to their work.

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The Administrator only needs to manage the DFS root directory of the domain to manage the shared folders on all servers.


Ii. Use domain-based DFS Load Balancing

1. Problems faced by enterprises:

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The file server in the network sometimes goes down unexpectedly. The Administrator often needs to recover the normal operation of the file server from the backup for a long time.

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After the file server goes down, employees of an enterprise cannot access Shared Files in time, causing inconvenience to their work.

2. General Solution:

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The Administrator restores the server from the backup and the recovered resources are unavailable.

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Ordinary users spend time searching for information, delaying working hours.

3. Implementation in the ad environment:

(1) Select "New root directory target" in the DFS root directory of the established domain, and then select another server as the root directory target in the Wizard. (You can also select multiple servers)

(2) After the file is created, the files shared in the root directory can be automatically copied to the server selected by the root directory. As shown in (3:

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Figure (3)

(3) (4) We can see that the shared directories stored on all file servers exist in the root directories of the two DFS servers.

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Figure (4)

4. Advantages of AD installation:

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The domain-based DFS root directory provides the ability to automatically copy files between multiple servers, facilitating data backup.

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The DFS root master server is down. Other DFS root slave servers can take over the DFS root master server without affecting the normal access of employees. The Administrator also has enough time for maintenance.

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You can search for active directories by network neighbors to find the shared directories you need.

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When users need to download files from the file server, the Active Directory site and DFS can automatically help users select the latest server to download, speeding up network access.

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