Re: Brain twisting problem with XP and domain DFS...
From: Dan B (none_at_none.com)
Date: 04/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:02:23 -0600
That worked. I'm not sure why those 3 machines needed "special treatment"
but...they did.
Thanks,
Dan
"Stefan Buchman" <stefan2002b@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> What happens when you type in the fully qualified name of the domain?
> (i.e. \\domain.name.com\data)
>
> - Stefan
>
> Dan B wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here is my setup...
> > W2K Active Directory domain with 2 domain controllers. One hosts the
DFS
> > root and the other is a dfs root replica. I have W2K and XP clients
with
> > mapped drives to the domain DFS instead of directly to a domain
controller,
> > for redundancy....i.e mapped drive to \\DomainName\data. Everything has
> > worked fine since day one.
> >
> > I just bought 8 new desktops with XP, and are now fully patched. Three
of
> > them have given me an error when trying to map the domain dfs drive.
> >
> > The error says:
> > The mapped network drive could not be created because the following
error
> > has occurred: The system cannot find the specified file.
> >
> > I can map them to the dc directly, i.e \\dc\data, but not with the
domain
> > name.
> >
> > These three have the exact same setup as the other new systems, which
work
> > fine. And no other existing clients have ever given this error.
> >
> > These three also DO have network connection and are receiving IP, etc
from
> > DHCP, like everything else.
> >
> > Has anyone ever seen this, or know the cause and a fix. I need to
untwist
> > my brain.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
> >
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