Alternate ways to get active/active Windows share?

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I want the reliability of fault tolerance if a node goes down whereas the users can still function, even if just slower than when both nodes are up. But I don't want 2 nodes tied back to shared storage like a SAN because if that is down, the users could wind up down.

There is no budget for a SAN and Windows 2008R2 is the OS platform. I'm relatively new to 2008 but I've found this:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/ar...ment-around-replicated-user-profile-data.aspx

which leads me to believe I cannot have 2 nodes doing DFS active/active serving user data and be considered "supported" by Microsoft.

So... are there any tricks you admins have used to achieve something like this?