We have main office (site 1) and another office (site 2), the connection between them is through VPN establised on 384K DSL connections.
We wish the users at site 2 be able to access the same network drive as site 1 users, the size of it is almost 6 GB, which way in the following list will be the smartest way to set this up?
(A) Have users at site 2 to map the network drive directly from the server at site 1, do it in real time across the WAN.
(B) Setup a folder at site 2 to sync. withthe original folder at site 1, and have users at site 2 to map the network drive from their own server.
Here is what I think about pros and cons for them, please correct me if I am wrong:
(A)
pros: The users are accessing the data from the same (and only) location, so no worry about different revision of data.
cons: It’s going to be slow
(B)
pros: Users at site 2 access the network drive at best perforamance because it’s local
cons: I don’t know how much traffic will cause for this 6GB folder to sync. with each other between site 1 and site 2.
Please give me some suggestion here.
