Re: enabling dfs and user folder redirection

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Hi Tester,

Thanks for your update. I am glad to know that information is useful to
you.

Please feel free to post back when you need further assistance on this
issue and we are glad to help.

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,

Jenny Wu
Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
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From: "tester" <tester@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
Subject: Re: enabling dfs and user folder redirection
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:32:10 -0700
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perfect, that was what I was looking for! thanks!


""Jenny wu [MSFT]"" <v-yanniw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Tester,

Thanks for using the SBS newsgroup!

I am sorry for the delayed response due to weekend. Please understand
that
the newsgroups are staffed weekdays by Microsoft Support professionals to
answer your systems and applications questions. Your understanding is
greatly appreciated!

From your description, I understand that you want to know if you can
setup
DFS between the SBS server box and additional DC. If I am off base,
please
don't hesitate to let me know.

Yes, you can. We can implement a distributed file system in either of two
ways, either as a stand-alone root distributed file system, or as a
domain
distributed file system.

You can refer to below steps to configure DFS link to replicate the Users
folder on your SBS server and additional DC:

1. Delete all existing DFS root since they may interfere with the current
configuration.

2. Create a new Domain Root on the SBS server with root name 'Users'.

Note: You do not need to specify the UNC path, since the Users are
default
share of the SBS server

3. On the Windows 2003 DC, please create a new folder and name it with
'Users'. Grant it as the same NTFS permission of the 'Users Shared
Folders'
on the SBS server. Please do not share this folder

4. On the DFS console, right click New root and click 'New root target'.
Please create this new root target and point it to Users folder on the
remote Domain controller.

After above steps, you may need to use \\domain.local\users DFS link to
access it on both local client and remote client workstation

For more detail information, you can take a look at the following
articles:

Distributed File System (DFS)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Serve
rHelp/370f16f9-dd08-45dc-8cf2-d9e2bfeada88.mspx

Distributed File System: Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/dfsfaq.mspx

Distributed File System (DFS) How To...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Serve
rHelp/370f16f9-dd08-45dc-8cf2-d9e2bfeada88.mspx

Hope above information helps. If you have any further question on the
issue
please let me know. I am happy to be of assistance to you and look
forward
to your reply.

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,

Jenny Wu
Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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From: "tester" <tester@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
Subject: enabling dfs and user folder redirection
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:08:38 -0700
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I have the my documents for all users redirected to the server so they
get
backed up regularly.
I am looking to add a second DC in my SBS domain for a bit of redundancy.
Can I use DFS and make the my documents on both of those servers (the sbs
server and the other dc) in a sort of folder mirror so if either server
is
offline, the my documents will still be available and then resynch when
the
offline server comes back up?

curious

thanks.








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