Re: DFS with SBS R2 and Server 2008

Hi,

Namespaces are a "mask" to allow administrators to group files located in
different servers by connecting them to one namespace. So even if the files
reside in different servers, you can access them by using the same path.

Namespaces do not perform replication. I believe you'd like both servers to
synchronize the files, so you're looking for setting a DFS Replication
service (for instance, having your 2008 as sending member and your 2003 as
receiving member). I'm not familiar with SBS 2003 R2 though, not sure what
file services it provides (anyone?)

I found this pretty neat tutorial for 2003, hope it helps a little (I think
2008 is similar)
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/art...plication.html

--Malu


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>I have a windows Server 2003 SBS Std. That I just recently upgraded to
> R2 thinking that I'd get the R2 Replication services, which i found
> out later that No you don't. So I still decided to create a DFS
> Namespace and move the files on it and have it replicate with the SBS
> 2003 R2 (upgraded) and the 2008 Server. Now the name space works, I
> can navigate to it and i see the files, and i can navigate to \
> \server1\share and \\server2\share and i see the files on both, but
> the files physically reside on the 2008 server and they are not on the
> 2003 server (both servers are set as Namespace servers).
>
> First Question, Why do I not see the files on the 2003 server? there
> are no event log entries stating any failures or problems.
> Second Question, should this work? I can't find anything that would
> say other wise and it did accept the configuration when creating the
> namespace...
>
> any input would be much appreciated
>
> Thank you.