[THIN] Re: Citrix - Drive Mappings

I agree, DFS may require some planning and coordination, but it at least does not REQUIRE consolodation.....



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-----Original Message-----
From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@shopdirect.com>

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:22:36
To: <thin@freelists.org>
Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix - Drive Mappings


Thing is, though, is that one approach (DFS) is largely virtual - and
can live alongside all the existing shares and filestore in place.

Consolidating to a NAS solution is a considerable chunk of work to do,
simply to alter the way the share filesystems are presented.

Personally, I'd recommend doing some work with DFS - because it doesn't
have to invalidate what's already there, and use of it can be migrated
bits at a time, without having to interrupt what's currently in place.

Plus there's no big investment for hardware, nor huge migration of data.
Simply organising an alternate view of how you want to present a
hierarchy of your existing shared file data.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@freelists.org
> [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk
> Sent: 29 October 2008 16:15
> To: thin@freelists.org
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix - Drive Mappings
>
> Consolidate to an HA NAS solution and reduce the number of
> shares to one by creating a hierarchical directory
> structure. Then limit access to branches by setting the
> appropriate NTFS permissions.
>
> DFS works too, but takes more planning, thought and resources
> to accomplish.
>
> Joe
>
> From: thin-bounce@freelists.org
> [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Toby
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:03 AM
> To: thin@freelists.org
> Subject: [THIN] Citrix - Drive Mappings
>
> Hi List,
>
> I have been tasked with finding a solution to users' drive
> mappings. One of my managers would like to replace the
> endless list of drive mappings with another solution,
> although he is not aware of anything that can do this.
>
> I only know of DFS, that can be used to access network
> paths/information.
>
> Has anyone implemented a client solution for accessing
> network paths without using more than one drive mapping?
>
> Kind regards,
> Toby



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