Greetings! I have a problem: users from two offices with a slow (say 10 Mbit/s) link between them use an old program with its Visual Foxpro 8 database located on the server in the office1. The problem shows when users from office2 make group selections over the database and it hangs for minutes as the app copies the whole file locally. I understand, that file-server concept is obsolete, but we still have to use this app without making any changes to its code.
I wanted to use DFSR to replicate database files between two servers located in office1 and office2 for the app could use local copy of the database. But then I realized, that this won't work as there would be many conflicts of simultaneous writes. Can DFSR be configured to have RO member in office2 and reading database from there, but sending all write requests to the only RW member in office1? Or maybe someone can suggest completely another solution. But please, don't suggest changing database to MSSQL as the app is to be unchangeable.