DFS on Panther Server

[schandor]

Hi all,
I will be purchasing a couple of servers for two locations (1 sever each). The purpose of the machines is for file and printing services. I hope to set up a DFS (distributed file system) as each location needs to access (and edit) the same files but connections between the two buildings are God-aweful slow. I believe I can accomplish this by purchasing some syncing software and running batches every night.

However, I would prefer something that is constantly updating. Is there any solution out there that will accomplish this for Panther server?

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

have you looked into using AFS?

go to http://www.openafs.org for more.

[schandor]

Sorry for the incredibly delayed reply. Yes I have looked into OpenAFS but it seems as though they only have a Client for Mac, not a server. If this is not right please let me know.

In the meantime, has anyone successfully compiled AFS from source?

Thanks.

[schandor]

OK, I found that the OpenAFS server is in the Mac download but it looks awfully complicated to set up. Has anyone successfully done this?

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