[Samba] Re: Dfs - Load Balancing

[Matt Seitz]

brian at krusic.com wrote:
>>1) How does it load balance?  Is it some sort of round robin?
> 
> No, its more like autofs using NFS with sym links in the Unix 
> world.

Actually, MS-DFS can do load balancing.  You can define multiple targets for a 
DFS link.  The client can then pick any of those targets.

However, MS-DFS does nothing to make sure those targets are identical.  It is up 
to the administrator to make sure the targets stay synchronized.