Re: How do I get FRS to take its paws off of something I want to r

the design guide:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window...974-b67f-e650b
602415e1033.mspx?mfr=true

webcast and sample script under the "Migrating FRS
to DFS Replication" section of this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...tshootfrs.mspx


"Ken Fine" wrote:

> Figuring this out two seconds after writing my question:
> 1) go to the old skool Distributed File System snap-in
> 2) delete the folders that point to the share
> 3) recreate if necessary in the shiny new DFS Management console.
>
> -KF
>
> "Ken Fine" <> wrote in message
> news44FA8BB-2028-4E0F-8D42-...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running Windows Server 2003 R2. It has that new DFS management
> > console. Of course, just to make things "exciting", the old DFS snap-in is
> > also still hanging around.
> >
> > I got DFS running and was testing it out. The DFS Management tool didn't
> > seem to work, so I tried the old DFS tool to replicate something. Big
> > mistake. Later on I made everything work using the newer DFS Management
> > tool. I've been trying to replicate the content in the folders/shares I
> > touched with the old DFS. It does not let me: I get the following error:
> >
> > "You cannot enable DFS Replication on this folder because it is already
> > being replicated using File Replication Service (FRS). "
> >
> > I've tried removing replication on the folder in the old DFS console,
> > stopping and restarting the FRS service, and deleting the folders it tells
> > me I shouldn't delete. Nothing has worked. Any suggestions on how I can
> > get FRS to unhandle this so that I can establish DFS replication using the
> > newer tool?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -KF
> >
> >