In my previous article, “Implementing DFS Namespaces,” we saw how to create a namespace (a virtual folder tree) using the enhanced DFS Management console of Windows Server 2003 R2. This article ...

Think about how users normally access data. Normally, you map a letter to a share on a server as part of a logon script or other policy. If users have to access multiple shares on a server, they have ...

We're having an issue with a few pieces of software (Bentley XM software, Primavera P3, and a few others) locking up when going through a DFS namespace. If we map a drive directly to a target folder ...

Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article will ...

When setting up a Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows, you can create either a standalone namespace or a domain-based namespace. While in general domain-based namespaces are the more popular ...

Everything I've read says uninstall DFS on the host, and then rename, then reinstall DFS. My epic rename: I just went through a variation of this. I had two servers replicating home directories for ...

This week I was busy with a number of things, including trying to deploy a distributed file system (DFS) namespace using several servers running Windows Server 2008. Setting up the namespace was ...

Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article will ...