Environment : Windows Server 2003, R2, Windows XP Pro/7 Mixed Clients
I have several machines (clients) on my network with some healthy storage space available because all the client files are being stored at the server for security and backup purposes.
I’d like to somehow use the available disk space on the networked clients as storage space accessible to everyone on the network – I guess it would be like virtual storage(?)
Let’s say I have 25 computers with 500GB drives on them and each machine is using 20 GB of that drive to store files relative to the client/OS itself. The remainder of the space is unused; so I have 12,000 GB of space unused on my network. However, if my server were to run out of space, I have to go buy another drive to increase it’s capacity. Why not use the 11 TB of storage available on my networked clients?
Is there a way to do that?
