Planning for file access includes the following domain requirements:

1. To provide remote access to file structures and shares, both Forefront UAG and File Access servers must be members of the same domain in which users are located, or in a trusted domain.
   
   
2. To allow remote access to Windows file servers, Forefront UAG must be either a member of the domain to which the file servers belong, or a member of a domain which has a trust relationship with the file server domain.
   
   
3. You can create a new domain with the Forefront UAG server as the domain controller, or join an existing domain.
   
   

To allow access to Novell NetWare servers, the following is required:

• To share Novell NetWare Server resources through the File Access application, you must install a Novell client on the Forefront UAG server.
  
  

For information on deploying file access, see Setting up the File Access application.