HI,

I have 4 namespace servers for my domain.  2 are Windows 2012R2 DCs and a 2003R2 DC in 1 AD site.  I have 1 other DFS namespace server Windows 2008R2 DC in another AD site. In the login script, i map y: drive to the DFS namespace.

Once a week, 1 person(in the ADsite with 3 DFS servers) can't access a folder in the Y:  A reboot 99% fixes it.

I have noticed if i wait a few minutes, the domain\dfs works, but i must remap the drive.

In windows explorer, if i do a domain\dfs, how doi know the actual server it is accessing...?

Thanks,

Tom...

Hi Tom,

To see the exact server target it is accessing, you can right click on the folder \\domain.com\dfs\share and go to Properties - DFS tab.

As you suspected, I also think it is actually connected to the wrong server target.

If failover is not needed (say server will almost always online), you can use dfsutil /insite to force users accessing an insite target.

Hi Shaon,

This is great, Thanks

So i can put this in the network loginscipt before mapping a drive to the DFS root...?

Thanks,

Hi Thomas,

It is for server side. Once you run the command dfsutil /insite, an outside target will not be provided when a client trying to get an available list of server target in accessing a DFS namespace.

eg: dfsutil /insite:\\example.com\dfsroot /enable