Sams Teach Yourself Windows® Server 2008 in 24 Hours

Chapter 12. Working with Network Shares and the Distributed File System

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Configuring a File Server

• File Server Disk Quotas

• Using the Share and Storage Management Snap-In

• Creating News Shares with the Share and Storage Management Snap-In

• Managing the File Server

• Publishing a Share to the Active Directory

• Using the Volume Shadow Copy Service

• Understanding the Distributed File System

• Installing and Configuring the Distributed File System

• Adding DFS Folders

• DFS Folder Replication

Two of the most compelling reasons for networking computers are to share data files and to share printers. Early computer networks and the network operating systems that they used were designed around these needs.

This hour takes a look at strategies for ...