DFS shares no longer working Garrett1226 12/5/2008 2:32:34 PM We have DFS shares for establishing our mapped drives across our 35 branch locations. Some of the DFS shares are in regional FRS replication sets for site-specific mapped drives. Yesterday, DFS shares just stopped working for some of our WinXP-SP2 clients, but only for some. We are able to access the shares via the server names, but not DFS namespaces. The only thing that happened that was right before the failures started was that one of the servers that hosted some of the DFS shares was restarted and some of our Domain Controllers received some patches (W2K3-SP2). No patches were sent out to the clients between the time it was working and the time it stopped. The DFS console seems to think all is fine with its shares and some suers are not having any problems getting to the DFS shares - seems to be no rhyme or reason. We thought it may be related to the DC they were authenticated too - but we have rebooted those and cannot see any log entries that would denote a problem. HELP PLEEEEEEEASE!!!!!! Thanks!

Re: DFS shares no longer working DaveMills <DaveMills[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> 12/6/2008 8:11:52 AM Did you try rebooting the clients. I have a problem on only one XP system (it is mine fortunately) Whenever one specific server is rebooted my workstation looses access to its shares. In this case it looses access to the \server\share which means that the DFS paths fail too. It can access any share on any other server and all other clients can access the rebooted server shares. A reboot on my workstation (XP SP3) always fixes the issue. Like you I have been banging my head but cannot find a cause. It does not look like exactly the same problem but it could be related. On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 06:32:34 -0800, Garrett1226 <Garrett1226[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >We have DFS shares for establishing our mapped drives across our 35 branch >locations. Some of the DFS shares are in regional FRS replication sets for >site-specific mapped drives. > >Yesterday, DFS shares just stopped working for some of our WinXP-SP2 >clients, but only for some. We are able to access the shares via the server >names, but not DFS namespaces. The only thing that happened that was right >before the failures started was that one of the servers that hosted some of >the DFS shares was restarted and some of our Domain Controllers received some >patches (W2K3-SP2). No patches were sent out to the clients between the time >it was working and the time it stopped. > >The DFS console seems to think all is fine with its shares and some suers >are not having any problems getting to the DFS shares - seems to be no rhyme >or reason. We thought it may be related to the DC they were authenticated >too - but we have rebooted those and cannot see any log entries that would >denote a problem. > >HELP PLEEEEEEEASE!!!!!! > >Thanks! -- Dave Mills There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.

Re: DFS shares no longer working "Rich" <spam[ at ]nospam.com> 12/9/2008 4:20:57 AM Do you happen to be runing Symantec AV or upgrade recently? I just did a migration that to DFS that the shares would disappear and stop working on a 2008 64bit server. It turned out to be Symantec AV. Once I uninstalled it completely everything was fine. Put in a call to MS support who confirmed that many were having this issue with AV on both windows 2003 and 2008 32 or 64bit. Right now I am building another non prod server to do testing to see if we can get the problem worked out with Symantec. Versions according to the forums and MS affected are 10.2 and the new 11. Sym Patches did not work. Symptoms were that the shares would disappear for XP clients and at times even cause their machines to lock or explorer to restart. Access speed to shares would slow way down before eventually disappearing. Vista machines appeared to keep working. In the begginning we didnt have many on the server so it was crusing along fine but as we added users the problem started to appear daily. "Garrett1226" <Garrett1226[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:45940112-099D-4A82-A504-358DB3FE645E[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > We have DFS shares for establishing our mapped drives across our 35 branch > locations. Some of the DFS shares are in regional FRS replication sets > for > site-specific mapped drives. > > Yesterday, DFS shares just stopped working for some of our WinXP-SP2 > clients, but only for some. We are able to access the shares via the > server > names, but not DFS namespaces. The only thing that happened that was > right > before the failures started was that one of the servers that hosted some > of > the DFS shares was restarted and some of our Domain Controllers received > some > patches (W2K3-SP2). No patches were sent out to the clients between the > time > it was working and the time it stopped. > > The DFS console seems to think all is fine with its shares and some suers > are not having any problems getting to the DFS shares - seems to be no > rhyme > or reason. We thought it may be related to the DC they were authenticated > too - but we have rebooted those and cannot see any log entries that would > denote a problem. > > HELP PLEEEEEEEASE!!!!!! > > Thanks!