Rocco,
Given a choice, I would lobby your IT to use DFS. Does not address VPN or RAS users.
Second choice would be to deploy KiX the way Howard does, namely to cache a local copy of everything and validate it with CRC. That would have the added benefit of VPN or RAS users having good performance.
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