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Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) is a technology that complements the SMB/CIFS based file server role of Windows Servers.

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DFSR specific folder specific server

I'm considering using DFSR to speed up a slow link between a branch office. I want to know if it is possible to exclude a specific folder from the replication, so that when the branch office accesses ...
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Do I break anything by having a regular share targeting a DFS share's folder?

I have DFS installed on a single file server - I wanted to use DFS now so I don't have to migrate later when I get a second file server. I'm trying to integrate third party sharing software and I ...
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DFS: File randomly missing?

We have a DFS installed on two different servers. Running health reports finds no errors and generally everything seems OK, but: On some computers, files will be saved on a DFS folder randomly, ...
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Why "file exists" trying to add folder to DFS namespace?

I've got a working (via normal share) shared folder on a server. However, when I try to add it to our DFS namespace it fails with "The file exists" error. I'm looking at the namespace and it clearly ...
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Occasional Authorization Errors with IIS, Azure Files and DFS

We'd had some IIS apps configured to run as a local user with admin privs per the standard recommended practice: David So's Blog - IIS and Azure Files. Some sites' app pools were running as domain ...
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Browsing DFS share keeps moving up a folder

I have a DFS-R namespace with three nodes. Two of the nodes work just fine, but a third node does something very strange. When you are browsing the node through the namespace, when you change into a ...
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DFS share(s) not visible for some Citrix SBC users

In short: Some Citrix SBC servers are experiencing the following problem When logged in to a Citrix server and browsing to a mapped drive (eg. drive D: (mapped as \domain.local\namespace\share)) the ...
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DFS referral cache duration

We have two domain-based DFS servers in our main office. A smaller location is connected through a VPN with the main office and uses the DFS for accessing shared resources in the main as well as at ...
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Is it possible to exclude files and folder that begin with $ from Windows 2008 R2 DFS replica?

If I replicate by DFSR users redirected folders all folders replicated have their own $RECYCLE.BIN directory and inside that directrory files are renamed as $XXXXX.YYY. I don't want to replicate them, ...
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Window Server 2012 DFS

I would like to perform replication on 2 file servers using DFS. DFS uses a namespace to allow users to map to their own personal drive. I want to use only IP BASED namespace like 192.168.0.3peter. Is ...
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Automatic Active Directory Replication not working: dc1=samba=CentOS + samba4 + dc2=dc=WinSrv2008R2SP1

Main domain controller is made with samba 4.3.4 on CentOS 7 (name=samba). Just made a new second domain controller on WinSrv2008R2Sp1 (name=dc). Sysvol replication was made using the following ...
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Unable to delete a folder from server 2012 R2

I had a replication enable a folder which was replicating data to a server 2012 r2 but i have disbale the replication but i'm unable to delete this folder or re-enable the replication. We had a ...
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DFS setup with large initial folder

I have two offices that both use a similar network share structure, and often generate the same files. I would like to implement DFS between the two locations, but am concerned that the main folder ...
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Selecting suitable server infrastructure for an SME envionrment

I've been assigned to come up with a solution to best fit our organization needs. Basically, we currently have a single server running few bunch of VMs on one organization. And the need now is to ...
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DFS Replicating files but not deleting the ones removed

I have 2 production environment File servers. When setting up DFS, 1 was set as primary and the other as secondary. While Replication process is working, it replicates the newly created files from the ...
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Unable to install DFS Namespaces feature on 2008R2/SP1

I have a totally fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition and have applied SP1 to it (not slipstream). It is a member of company domain and I'm logged on as domain administrator. Now ...
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execute .Bat file under remote user

We have a windows service running under an AD Account. This account is a non personnel account and has limited access (can not log in locally, etc.) This service tries to access a DFS share (the ...
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Using DFS without replication (aka single server)

I have an older Windows 2008R2 Server which operates as file server ("normal" smb shares). As I need to replace it, I asked myself if it would be a good idea to move to DFS and start using namespaces, ...
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File share over site-to-site VPN (DFS enabled)

I have two sites with servers with DFS and one site with just two VPN site-to-site to the other two sites with the servers. The users can't acess the file share via \\domain.local\SHARE but they can ...
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Monitoring DFS namespace usage

I have a target within my DFS namespace that was originally created with an incorrect spelling in the name, the underlying share is correct. It didn't get noticed for a couple years though. I have ...
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How do Windows DFS referrals work for laptops away from the office?

How do Windows DFS referrals work for laptops away from the office? [Edit 2014-11-26] I already understand how sites are defined by subnets, etc. But what I want to know is what happens to users ...
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Folders got randomly deleted

I currently have a Windows Server 2012 R2 vm. This vm has a DFS share which is used as a file repository. It has been working flawlessly for about 4 years, however suddenly a bunch of random folders ...
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Finding synonyms in DFS

Giving a path to a file on the network, for example: \\server1\folder\file I'm trying to find all the other paths (in my network) pointing to the exactly same file (not a copy of it, but a replicate ...
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Access to DFS shares fails after reboot

I'm using DFS to access varios shares on a server using a domain namespace - like \mydomain.local\docs. The DFS shares are not replicated. The shares are located on a DC After rebooting the host the ...
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Simulate a DFS share for a user not on domain with a folder in path

I have a consultant whose computer is not on the domain and needs to access various network resources. Unfortunately while adding a computer to the domain is a difficult bureaucratic process (and ...
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File Screening on Server Share

I am having a bit of a challenge here. I have two file servers configured with DFS enabled. Replication is working just fine and all is well with them. However, I am at a point where I want to do some ...
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How are files distributed in DFS folder targets?

I have a Windows DFS made up by 2 servers (Windows Server 2012 R2). Each server have a share folder that was used as target folder for the DFS share. When I create files in the DFS share, I notice the ...
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SCOM 2012R2 DFS Replication Managementpack

We have a functional implementation of SCOM 2012R2 running on Windows Server 2012R2. Recently I have begun trying to get the DFS Replication monitoring working; specifically backlog monitoring. ...
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Hide a normal share when the share is already under DFS share?

I'm wondering if it is possible to hide the normal windows file server share when that same share has been published via DFS on the same server? To clarify, say I'm running DFS on a server called ...
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Why is DFS Replication consuming so many resources when there are no replication groups?

I manage a few Windows 2012 servers, which, between them all, host millions of small files. I have DFS namespaces set up and tried to get DFS replication working as well. DFS replication didn't seem ...
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Joining 2 Domain Trees to New Forest and Preserving Non-Contiguous Namespaces & Schemas

I'm working on a project to use DFS file replication between our site and our sister site. Each site has its own domain as forest root, all DC's run Win2012R2: corp.company.co.uk is one domain and ...
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How to work with Access-Based enumeration in Dfs?

So Windows Server Dfs apparently does support Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) on from Server 2008. But it does not seem to work out-of-the box - mere creation of links in a root does make them visible ...
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2012R2 DC Cannot Resolve Itself, FRS not responding, "No logon servers available" error, etc

A client of mine attempted to "troubleshoot" their DC's DNS by wildly adding/removing a bunch of conditional forwarders, stub zones, and forward lookup zone records to the DNS server, writing/erasing ...
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Is it possible to specify alternate path for storing "Conflict and Deleted" files in DFSR?

I have recently setup DFS replication between two folders and their subfolders on two 2012R2 servers. This folder is a "custom" folder used by our .NET web application that contains settings and data ...
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Linux and Window DFS shares - restoring previous versions of files/folders

I know I can mount DFS shares on my Linux boxes with no issues, but is there a method by which I can access/restore previous versions of folders/files from these DFS shares? Thanks
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How to build a fault-tolerant Windows file share?

I have a primary and a backup windows 2008 server, and a bunch of windows XP clients that map a drive to a share on the primary server. If the primary server goes down, I want those client machines to ...
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MS DFS samba share on a Linux server working for Mac and Linux clients, but not Windows

I have a CentOS 6 machine with a simple samba share that I am trying to setup as a DFS server, so it can point clients to folders on other servers. Following the samba documentation for setting this ...
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How to display root directories for a domain with DFS?

I am working with a DFS setup of the standard form \\domain.local\root. We are sharing these and to navigate to the DFS share users would type \\domain\sales or \\domain\support. How can I setup so ...
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IIS 8.5, Kerberos and DFS Backend files

We have a new IIS app (8.5 on server 2012 R2).Some of the links on the site forward to files stored on a DFS (AD Integrated) share. The setup is : IIS 8.5 --> Two DFSN servers --> File server (all ...
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Dfs one namespace or two server

My question is similar to "Move DFS Namespace" asked Mar 7 2014 by Alex Mckenzie. I want a fault tolerant server so that users can access folders when one DFS server is not available. So far I have ...
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Shared Excel WorkBook is locked by another user

I’ve been trying everything; this is the last chance I have. I moved folders and files from an old Windows Server 2003 File Server to a new FS (Win Server 2008 R2) with DFS and ABE enabled. Now, a ...
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Link two servers under the same namespace using DFS-N

I have set up two fileservers (Windows Server 2012 R2), namley; filesrv01 & filesrv02. I have installed DFS-N and DFS-R on both the servers, in the goal of linking them both to a single namespace, ...
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Why is the size of used space of a share different from the used space of a network drive targeting to that share?

We have a share that shows 350GB (376.544.187.272 Bytes) as used. If I mount that Share as a network drive it shows me 304 GB (326.777.810.944 Bytes) as used. The underlying NetApp Volume shows me ...
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Strange NTFS Permissions issue on Windows Share + Win 8.1 Clients

Server 2012 R2 file server -- the share is exposed over a DFS namespace. I have a group called "share" that all the users are members of. This group has read/write access to the root of the DFS share ...
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Mount a Windows DFS Namespace in Linux

I've got a Windows DFS setup with a few namespaces, and I need a way of accessing them via CentOS. Any ideas? I've had a look at CIFS mounting, but it won't support the namespace (each separate ...
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DFS: Error creating domain-based namespace "The namespace cannot be queried. The RPC server is unavailable."

I try to create a domain-based namespace but when I hit "next" on the "choose type wizard page" I get the message: The namespace cannot be queried. The RPC server is unavailable. I found one ...
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Why do things break when using DFS/Folder Redirection?

Here are two slightly different, but similar scenarios: There is an S:\ drive mapped to \\server\share. A DFS namespace is then implemented, with S:\ changed to \\domain.local\dfs\share (which is ...
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how to prevent direct access to DFS Namespace shared folders

I have made a DFS Namespace named \\dc1\bank. There are some other folders from another file servers(for example \\dc1\bank\folder1 is the folder on \\fs1\folder1). I want to restrict users to direct ...
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Is there a way to setup alerts for a failed DFS topology connection?

I have a large DFS structure setup between multiple remote sites and multiple hub servers in a full mesh topology. Each remote site has its own namespace or namespaces and replication group. I have an ...
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Computers point to DC in wrong site

I need your help. I've struggled with this for months and nothing I've found online has helped me. The problem is, domain computers sometimes point to an incorrect domain controller in a different ...

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