Load Balancing Windows File Share? Doable ??

So I have a storage design question. The goal of this question is to find out how to best design a high availability storage solution without a single point of failure (SPF). 
We need a storage location that needs to be accessed via an smb share in format of \\servername\sharename. We need to have an extremely high available solution as this share will be used to host remote IIS files and other important files being used by multiple
web servers. The most ideal solution is if there is a way to load balance an SMB fileshare so that it can be accessed by \\loadbalanced_name\sharename. 
I am not sure if such technology exists for Windows 2008, Windows Storage Server, or with using 3rd party load balancing / file server / iscsi solution. 
The current setup of our high available fileshare is with using Windows Clustering with 2 file servers attached to a singled Direct Attached Storage (DAS). Although we never really have an issue with this design, we would like to entirely eliminate the single
point of failure of the DAS.
So, any ideas / Input from anyone? 
Thanks in advance!
Ed

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4t wowrack.com was claimed to have wrote:
hmm after thinking about this a little bit more, I guess I can use DFS. 
However, I used to run a corporate file server for mid size company of 400 people using windows 2003 and I hated the replication to the guts. It doesn't seem to work well for large volumes... 
FRS had issues, especially with large volumes.  DFS-R solves that.
More importantly, DFS and DFS-R can be used independently, so if you
can't figure out how to get DFS-R working for you, you can always look
into your own replication scheme and just use DFS to get clients to the
appropriate server.

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