Re: DFS to a single volume

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:21:50 -0700

You might want to repost to microsoft.public.windows.server.dfs_frs.

You mention replication, which implies FRS as FRS is the replication engine
behind DFS replicas. If your goal is to replicate content locally on the
same machine, for example c:\ReplicaRoot with e:\ReplicaRoot, FRS does not
support such a scenario. FRS only replicates between different machines.

As for your other questions about setting up a DFS namespace as you
describe, you should probably ask your question again in
microsoft.public.windows.server.dfs_frs.

I do know of an alternative that may work for you that does not involve DFS
and might be more appropriate for your scenario. If you are using NTFS, you
can use a mount point instead of a drive letter. So suppose you currently
have the following.

1 TB disk 0 mapped as E:\ and on E:\ you have
E:\Vol
E:\Vol\Users
E:\Vol\Shared

Suppose you want to have 4 256 MB disks as disk1, disk2, disk3, and disk4.
You could do the following.

1) Map e:\ to disk 1.
2) Create empty folder e:\vol.
3) Map e:\vol to disk 2.
4) Create empty folders e:\vol\users and e:\vol\shared.
5) Map e:\vol\users to disk 3.
6) Map e:\vol\shared to disk 4.

Now, each of e:\, e:\vol, e:\vol\users, and e:\vol\shared are on separate
256 MB volumes. The shares you mention should work fine.

--Richard

Please post FRS related questions to microsoft.public.windows.server.dfs_frs
and prefix the subject line with "FRS:" to make it easier to spot. Note that
FRS is used to replicate SYSVOL on domain controllers and DFS root and link
targets.

For additional FRS resources, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/frs.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Ken" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1b49701c44fc0$7d821a10$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I am replacing a 1 TB drive with four smaller drives and
> using DFS to make them look like the original drive.
>
> Here the current drive configuration:
>
> Physical
> on Serv1 Shared as
> ------------------------
> E:\ - E$
> E:\Vol - Vol
> E:\Vol\Users - Users
> E:\Vol\Shared - Shared
>
> User access this server using anyone of the following
> shares:
>
> \\serv1\e$
> \\serv1\e$\Vol
> \\serv1\e$\Vol\users
> \\serv1\e$\Vol\Shared
> \\serv1\Vol
> \\serv1\Vol\users
> \\serv1\Vol\Shared
> \\serv1\Users
> \\serv1\Shared
>
> I am trying replicate the above by creating four new drives
> E: F: G: H: and link them with DFS (Win2003)
>
> Is this possible.? Once I create E$ as DFS root, I cannot
> create another root under E$ for data to nest users and
> Shared directories.
>
> Can anyone please help.

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