DFSUtil in Windows Server 2003 VS DFSUtil in Windows Server 2008

DFSUtil: Windows Server 2003 vs Windows Server 2008

DFSUtil: Windows Server 2003 vs Windows Server 2008 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:22:01 GMT

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re: DFSUtil in Windows Server 2003 VS DFSUtil in Windows Server 2008

Ruud — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:17:42 GMT

Can you tell me if there is a CLI for building DFS replication?

re: DFSUtil in Windows Server 2003 VS DFSUtil in Windows Server 2008

Nelson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:59:15 GMT

It looks like when using the "DFSUtil link add" command, it puts everything in lowercase when it creates the link. For example:

dfsutil link add "\\Mydomain.pri\Links\Test\This is A Test" "\\fileserver1\share\This is A Test"

The DFS link it creates is "this is a test" instead of "This is A Test".

This is quite anoying, and frankly I don't understand why it would even do this. Is there a work around for this?

re: DFSUtil in Windows Server 2003 VS DFSUtil in Windows Server 2008

cfsbloggers — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:40:42 GMT

Hi, Nelson,

Quoting Ganesh in the dfs_frs newsgroups:

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Thanks for reporting this issue. This is a know issue in dfsutil.

As a work around please use dfscmd /map to create links in dfs namespace.

Thanks

Ganesh

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Hope it helps,

--Malu

re: DFSUtil in Windows Server 2003 VS DFSUtil in Windows Server 2008

Sebastian Kim Morsony — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:10:14 GMT

I have a problem with my DFS setup running Windows Server 2008. It's Active Directory integrated.

If a client doesn't have our fqdn as as dns search suffix the client cannot resolve the dfs. I guess this is due to the server replying with the netbios name instead of the dns name. I've set the DFSDNSConfig to 1 on both my dfs servers, but I am unsure if I need to delete the whole namespace and create it again as this article describes for Win2003. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244380

Can any of you guys point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Sebastian