Hi all;
Suppose my domain name is Contoso.com. What is the differences between the
following to addresses when I access the Marketing namespace:
\\contoso.com\Marketing

I have been having this trouble for a while now, and I have an open
case with Microsoft support to work on this issue, but so far, we have
not been able to solve this.
When accessing a DFS namespace share, if the share has not been

I would like to have a dfs template, so that i can update my documentation.
Is there a ready-made template on the net ?

windows 2003 r2
After a hub/spoke is done, all members become multi-replication or all equal
parnters.
To maintain a hub and NOT to receive updates from branch (hub only pushes

if my files are already winzip, does the DFRS replication algorithm helps
further in compression ?

I've a master source and i wish to distribute files to the receiveing
partner.
Should i use robocopy from master source to receiving partner or will a DVD
media suffice before initial replication takes place ?

windows 2003 r2 standard edition
Say i've 2 replicated servers. One master (server A), one receiving partner.
(server B)
After the master repllicates all data to receiving partner for some days,

At what stage do i know when initial replication has completed ?
Is there a status that shows all partners are all equal now ?

I had set up three replication groups to replicate three separate folders
within the same root folder
I then deleted all three replication groups.
I then configured dfs to replicate at the root folder level only. The

windows 2003 standard edition r2, using domain namespace only
I've 3 DFS server runnning in country A, B, C
1. Should i create a domain namespace in a *separate* servers or i can pick
any countries's server to host domain namespace ?

If i make a server an authorisative partner during INITIAL repllication,
subsequently the receiving partners, all partners inherit the permission
from the initial authorisative primary member ?
If that is the case, if i want to enforce permissions, i must plan such a

I'm just cutting my teeth on DFS, after the current setup has fallen over.
While i'm sat here seeing and working out what's going wrong, it's occurred
to me that if you use DFS between multi sites, it is going to be very easy
to loose versions of data. i.e 2 people working on ...

Windows 2008.
I currently have a DFS share named Termed Staff which contains a folder of
each staff name and their documents.
Now, I have a security group "SEC-Termed Staff" which allows staff access to

We have Windows Server 2003 Access Based Enumeration in a DFS environment.
How or where do you go to set the ACL on DFS links as users are able to
browse other DFS shares.
We have many DFS links exist under the root and currenly if they go

Hi NG,
we are storing users home directories on a domain controller running w2k3
enterprise (not R2!)
given that we'd like to replicate approx. 400 GB of data to another wk3