Andy,
One way you should be able to achieve your desired results is from AD Sites
and Services.
Refer to the following link for more information:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/dfsfaq.mspx#E4C
If your HQ users are in the same AD Site as your HQ DFS servers, I believe
they will always refer to those first. Unless you disable referral status
which does not allow for real time failover.
Hope this helps,
Dave
"Andy Mac" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > 4 AD Sites, North, South, Central, HQ.
> A file server at each site servicing users at those sites.
> An additional Server at HQ used as a Core DFS server. File shares from all
> sites (including its own) replicate here for fault tolerance and backup
> purposes.
> I want users at HQ to be referred via DFS to the original HQ file server.
>
> I thought I could do this by going to the Namespace / Namespace Server
> properties / advanced tab on HQFILESERVER and changing the referral ordering
> to "last among targets". Then on CORDFSESERVER change the setting to "first
> among targets".
>
> This isn't working for me. I realise I could make this more granular and do
> it at folder level rather than namespace, but ....
>
> The only way I can achieve my desired goal is to go to the Folder / folder
> target / right-click then "disable folder target" on COREDFSSERVER. This
> works, however to have the fault-tolerant part of the solution working it
> would require admin intervention.
>
> What is Best Practice here please to achieve the requirement ?
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