paul smith

I have a single DFS root namespace on a Windows 2000 member server. One of
my links is called Payment Processing and points to a Payment Processing
shared folder on our file and print server. My office is in Texas. We have
a second office in Oregon. There is Payment Processing folder on one of the
Oregon servers.

Here is what I am wanting to do but do not know if I can do it with DFS.
Under the Payment Processing link is a folder that I created called
Portland. I want our users here at my office in Texas to be able to click
on this Portland folder under the Payment Processing mapping and it redirect
them to the Payment Processing folder on our server in our Portland, Oregon
office.

I thought that this was possible with DFS. I read from the Windows 2000
Server Distributed Systems Guide where it says that "Linking from one DFS
link to another DFS link is possible only if the second link is in a
separate DFS namespace. For example, you cannot have
\\Server\DFS_root\DFS_link1\DFS_link2 unless DFS_link2 lies under another
DFS root."

I set this up but when I check the status of the link it gives me a red X.
Does anyone know if I can do this using DFS?

paul smith

At the moment I have two DFS root replicas in Texas and Oregon called
\\gfs.dom\files. The data is not replicated. Only the DFS root structure
is replicated. What if I created a second DFS root namespace. Would that
help? Right now if I mapped a drive letter to "\\gfs.dom\files\payment
processing" I want my users to be able to click on the Portland folder under
the Payment Processing DFS link and redirect them to the Payment Processing
share on our Portland file and print server. Can I do that if I create a
second DFS root namespace on a different server? If so, how do I configure
it?

murali brahmadesam [msft]

OK create links as shown below
under \\gfs.dom\files\ root create a link named "paymentProcessing\Portland"
pointing
to your portland file and print server, create another link named
"paymentProcessing\Texas" to point to your texas server.

Note: the link can be of form "dir1\dir2"
you dont need another root for this.

-Murali

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