server 2008 DFS
1) AD domain required?
2) can DFS be used to synch a directory structure between a few servers all
of which belong to completely different AD forests?

Hi,
While DFS-R was performing an Online defragmentation of the DFS-R DB, a
restore job started using Backupexec 12. The DFS-R service was stopped,
restore completed, DFS-R Service started.

I cannot access a domain dfs root, using the DFS tool in administrative tools
menu, windows 2003 server. I am an administrator in "domain".int, the DFS
root is located in "domain".dmz\domain dfs roots\ . I am a member of a group
that gives me domain admin rights in "domain".dmz, ...

I would like to use a shared folder located on a 2003 Web Server Edition
as a replicated DFS target (DFS-R).
Is this possible ?
I a not sure whether this server is in a R2 flavor or not, I don't even

We have DFS running in about 6 offices nationwide and each office has a DFS
Root target available on each file server in the office on the office File
Server.  In one of our offices we getting complaints (sorry but the details
are sketchy at best) from clients indicating a ...

Is there an information about dfs fail over? If one server is down
hosting a dfs folder, how can I force all client connections to choose
the other redundant server?
\\domain\user\share1 -> \\server1\share01$

Hi group,
We've been having the above errors in the System log of our domain
controller for the past couple of weeks. I've run dcdiag and netdiag
and will post all the pertinent information. The server holds all fsmo

I found a statement in  MS DFS design document: "If the staging folder size
is below 100 percent of the configured quota, DFS Replication will typically
replicate nine files at a time."
Does anybody have any more technical reference on this 9 file issue?

We have two servers with 03 R2 and each are running DFSR replication, and
there seems to be a folder with around 12 files in it, that mysteriously
password protected themselves without any user intervention.  I was thinking
a macro virus or something, but cannot find anything.  ...

We currently redirect the desktop and My Documents to a folder on the server.
Has anyone tried using DFS replication on this directory?  Can you use the
DFS root for folder redirection instead of \\<servername>?  Please let me
know.

I have some Windows 2003 servers which currently have SP2 on them. I
want them to start using DFS Replication. How can I install the R2
extensions on these servers? When I try, I get the message that the SP
is not supported. I've seen an SP2 install for R2. Does that mean I

I have just installed DFS on our network.  I have the Domain Namespace
"\\mahar\mytest".  I have 2 locations Main AD is win 2003 R2, Branch AD is
Win 2003 SP2.  I have preped the on the main AD.  
The test folders are set up on \\branchAD\SoftwareFiles  and NAS server (Win

Hi @ all,
anybody there who has experience with DFS-Namespace (no Replication) in an
enviroment with
- 5000 (or more) user

All,
I have 2 folders:
\\server\folder1
\\server\folder2

Deleted a DFS namespace and trying to add a new one. Error is:
The namespace server \\servername\namespacename\ cannot be added. The server
already hosts a namespace. You can host multiple namesapces only on Windows
Server 2003, Enterprise Edition or Windows Server 2003, ...