On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:04:01 -0700, RW <> wrote:
>file servers are 2008 SP2 and all clients are XP SP3, AD is 2003 level
>native, so we do not take yet adventage of 2008 DFS features
Ta. Similar to me but I have a single site.
>
>"DaveMills" wrote:
>
>> I guess we need the OS and versions for the clients and servers to start with.
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:07:02 -0700, RW <> wrote:
>>
>> >I'm new to DFS and would like to learn from other experiance how it is
>> >working and if particular behavior I'm seeing is expected.
>> >
>> >scenario 1:
>> >- multiple servers are mirrors of each other they located in diferent
>> >phisical locations
>> >- when local server goes down I see following: in some cases people are
>> >redirected (as expected) to different server and all works but there are
>> >clients who are no redirected at all instead they get network drive not
>> >avalilable or similar message.
>> >
>> >why would that be?
A clue to look for is "fail back". I have not made changes to this yet as I have
at the moment a single target server (until I can rebuild the other server).
Normally XP client will switch to a different server but do not switch back
unless "fall back" is configured.
Some more info is at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898900
It may be relevant to you.
>> >
>> >scenarion 2:
>> >- when above happens those and failed server bacomes avaliable again those
>> >who were previously redirected to second server are still accessing secondary
>> >server, I'm guessing they hav eto do manual switch by going to drive
>> >properties DFS tab and click Set Active right?
>> >- problem is that those who previously were not redirected to secondary
>> >server and were getting access not available now when the faild local server
>> >is up they have to also go to drive properties DFS tab and although local
>> >server is already selected as Active they still have to click Set Active to
>> >acctually make it active.
>> >
>> >so why in the first place this clients were not redirected and secondly why
>> >they cannot access local server unless the go to DFS tab and confirm Active?
>> >
>> >any by the way there is no difference between clients in fact I have had
>> >this with exactly 2 same workstations, same image, same patches, etc.
>> >
>> >- finally we run vbs script to map share drives base on AD group membership,
>> >I never had problem running this script in past when mapping drives in format
>> >of \\server_name\share now all that have changed is
>> >\\domain_name\namespace\folder and I had couple instances where script is
>> >executed and I know it is because same script is installing printers base on
>> >group memebrship and printers are installed but drives are not there. I can
>> >go to end user PC and run it manually and it is still not working what I
>> >found though is that if I first go start - run \\domain_name\namespace and
>> >open it, so I'm making sort of "manual" connection I can runsame script and
>> >all works??
Interesting! I have not observed this but will look out for it in future. I have
had problems but usually have rebooted the client.
>> >
>> >any ideas?
>> --
>> Dave Mills
>> There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.
>>
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