Can not create a new DFS root after deleting a test root on W2k3 server

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Recently we installed a Windows 2003 Standard server in a remote office and while testing to see if the DFS would meet out requirements, we created a test Root on the Remote server... After thoroughly testing it and deciding it was the route we wished to go, we deleted the test root on the remote server and then tried to set up the DFS file share to match the topology we wanted. Yet everytime we try to create a new root on the remote server, we get: the following error occurred while creating DFS root on server remotesvr01: The request is not supported

Of course the docs state you can only have one DFS root on a Windows 2k3 Standard server, but we deleted the test root and the folder and network share it was using, yet still can not create a new root on the server. The main office server will allow us to create, delete, and recreate a DFS root all day long, but the root server will not let us create a root or set it up as an additional root target, because it apparently thinks it already has a Root

Anyway we can fix this without rebuilding the remote server or removing and reinstalling DC functionality? Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

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I found the problem, there was a "Ghost" root still in the DFS tables. even though the GUI didnt show it, when I did the cmd line dfsutil /view /server: it appeared, apparently the test dfs used the same share name as another share now used on the network and was confusing it... Had to stop the DFS service, unshare the other share, the restart the DFS

This allowed us to recreate the DFS Root on the remote server, then we could reshare the problem child folder and all was well...