Re: Brain twisting problem with XP and domain DFS...

From: Stefan Buchman (stefan2002b_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:13:41 -0400

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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