DFS Intersite

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

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/l.../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

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:

> 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/l.../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

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:

> 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