Distributed File System used with DCE on CCS systems. All user home directories are kept in DFS.
Distributed File System. A subset of the IBM Distributed Computing Environment.
Distributed File Service. A component in DCE that creates a distributed file system by the same way as AFS, but it is a further refinement of AFS offering possibilities among others for reliability delegation.
The Distributed File Service. DFS is one of the applications of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). DFS makes use of DCE authentication to control access to security services to protect and control access to data. The DCE client allows users to authenticate with their CAC Access Account userid and password to gain access to many different resources on campus through their Network Neighborhood. Users can save directly into DFS, rather than saving locally and moving files into DFS through FTP. For example, a user can save a file directly to their personal Web space rather than FTP the file to ftp.personal.psu.edu. The CAC is currently converting most servers from AFS (Andrew File System) to DFS. Performance of DFS is enhanced by using local disk caches on client machines. DFS is currently available on AIX, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, UNICOS and Windows NT.
Distributed File System. A Microsoft technology introduced in Windows 2000 that allows multiple servers and shared directories on a network to appear as a single network drive, thus helping to ease the annoying problem of running out of drive letters in complex environments. With DFS, you can have your users' H: drive, for example, be a collection of network resources instead of just a single share.
Dental Fluoride Tracking System
The Distributed File System component of OSF-DCE
Digital Full Scale...the term used for 0Db in the digital domain. Exceeding DFS gives u digital distortion.
Distributed file system. A Win2K component that abstracts the \\server\share resource location convention to a logical hierarchy of directories that the systems administrator defines.
DFS allows administrators to group shared folders located on different servers by transparently connecting them to one or more DFS namespaces. A DFS namespace is a virtual view of shared folders in an organization.
DFS can mean several things.