[Ray Z]

I have an internal windows 2003 std edition server that web pages are built on.
I am thinking of using dfs to replicate these web pages to our external
windows 2003 web server. I have used the security configuration wizard to
allow dfs but dfs requires net bios on the web server. Am I going down the
correct path to automatically update content in a secure manner?

Thanks for you help

[Wong Tuck Wah]

As long as the server is able to resolve the destination host, it could be
either local or remote.

DFS is respsonible to only replicating the contents between the hosts. To
achieve secure synchronizing, you can establish a secure session between them
such as using VPN transport mode or just IPSec. This will ensure all contents
send between them are securely encrypted.

If encryption is too burdenful for the system and if you think the dfs
contents are not senitive to be access by anyone, you can consider to just
configure both systems to have SMB signing only (which is enable by default
in w2k3). This will provide any anti-spoofing and anti-relpy attacks.

HTH.

"Ray Z" wrote:

> I have an internal windows 2003 std edition server that web pages are built on.
> I am thinking of using dfs to replicate these web pages to our external
> windows 2003 web server. I have used the security configuration wizard to
> allow dfs but dfs requires net bios on the web server. Am I going down the
> correct path to automatically update content in a secure manner?
>
> Thanks for you help