I get an error on some of my windows xp client machines that says the folder
in dfs is not accessible.
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\\dfsroot\dfs\sharename is not accessible. You might not have permission to
use this network resource. contact the administraotr of this server to find
out if you have access permissions.
the network path is not found.
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All shares to this one server exhibit this behavior. we have shares on a
different server that work fine on all machines. Most machines in the
network are able to access all dfs locations. the servers are windows 2003.
there are some vista client machines on the network.
when i right click the folder in dfs and select properties, there is a dfs
tab. on that tab, i can click 'clear history', 'check status' and 'set
active'.
clear history - does not seem to do anything.
check status - changes the icon in the referral list to include a small red
circle with white x. also, the status changes to 'Unreachable'.
set active - does not seem to do anything except change the active column to
'yes'.
I attempted to access the share directly via the path shown in the referral
list. doing this i get an error saying 'windows cannot find
'\\server\path$'. check the spelling and try again, or try searching for the
item by clicking the start button and then clicking search'.
On some of the machines, when this error shows up, rebooting will fix the
problem. on others, deleting the offline cache will fix the problem for a
while.
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Bill Cochran
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