DFS Intersite slj333 12/10/2008 10:45:02 PM Hello, We have replicated a DFS share to a new site. We currently have 3 sites (all running Windows 2003 R2 sp20 that have a local copy of the DFS root. The problem is that users are rarely accessing their local dfs share. Sites and services look like they are set up properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sj

RE: DFS Intersite John Angel [MSFT] 12/15/2008 7:03:01 AM Hello, I guess you mean that there is a domain-based namespace being hosted by 3 root servers. Regarding your problem, for clients accesing root server in their own sites, there is need to: Sites and site costs in Active Directory being configured properly Bridge all site links option in Active Directory must be enabled The following page contain useful information related to AD Sites, that can help in your deployment: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727051.aspx "slj333" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > We have replicated a DFS share to a new site. We currently have 3 sites > (all running Windows 2003 R2 sp20 that have a local copy of the DFS root. The > problem is that users are rarely accessing their local dfs share. Sites and > services look like they are set up properly. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Sj

RE: DFS Intersite steve 12/19/2008 8:49:01 PM Hi John, Yep, everything in Sites and Services looks clean to me. It is one domain (forest) with a domain-based namespace being hosted by 3 root servers. Yet still workstations at a site which contains a root server, do not point to the share on their lan. Are there any commands that need to be run using dfsutil to make enable this behavior? Best, Steve J. "John Angel [MSFT]" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > > I guess you mean that there is a domain-based namespace being hosted by 3 > root servers. Regarding your problem, for clients accesing root server in > their own sites, there is need to: > > Sites and site costs in Active Directory being configured properly > Bridge all site links option in Active Directory must be enabled > > The following page contain useful information related to AD Sites, that can > help in your deployment: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727051.aspx > > "slj333" wrote: > > > Hello, > > We have replicated a DFS share to a new site. We currently have 3 sites > > (all running Windows 2003 R2 sp20 that have a local copy of the DFS root. The > > problem is that users are rarely accessing their local dfs share. Sites and > > services look like they are set up properly. Any help would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Sj

RE: DFS Intersite steve 12/19/2008 9:15:01 PM One more thing that might be the issue here. In DFS Management (Replication), my root share does not show a status of published. What does publishing the namespace do? My users can get to the data now via \\domain\data without the sharing and publishing, but is this okay? Steve J. "slj333" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > We have replicated a DFS share to a new site. We currently have 3 sites > (all running Windows 2003 R2 sp20 that have a local copy of the DFS root. The > problem is that users are rarely accessing their local dfs share. Sites and > services look like they are set up properly. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Sj