DFS issues

[Bhargav Shukla]

All of a sudden this started cropping up in our network. Users started
getting errors with DFS shares. Here is what happens.

When user tries to open the DFS location they get the error
\\dfsroot.mydomain.com could not be found. When they try accessing the same
files using direct share \\server1\... it works!

For some users it even works when they type \\dfsroot but fails when they
try \\dfsroot.mydomain.com

For some users deleting the shortcut to DFS and recreating them solved the
problem. For others nothing worked!

All help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Bhargav Shukla

 

[Mukul Gupta [MSFT]]

Is "dfsroot.domain.com" your domain DNS name? What is the exact UNC path
that you access here (for ex. \\domainname\rootname...)?

Please send me the output of 'dfsutil.exe /spcinfo' and 'dfsutil.exe
/pktinfo' on the client machine where this access is failing. (dfsutil.exe
is a support/reskit tool)

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Thanks
Mukul [MSFT]

PS: Please post DFS related queries in newsgroup
microsoft.public.win2000.file_system. Please use "DFS" in subject to make it
immediately noticeable.

PS: Please find latest dfsutil.exe (updated) at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...C3-C7A3-4B5B-9FF1-FD01B0203DC1&displaylang=en

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[Bhargav Shukla]

Unable to reproduce the problem at the moment. WIll send you outputs as soon
as I find a client where I can reproduce the problem. Sorry for delay but
it's a big campus and things get weird not going our way sometimes.

Thanks,
Bhargav

Is "dfsroot.domain.com" your domain DNS name? What is the exact UNC path
that you access here (for ex. \\domainname\rootname...)?

Please send me the output of 'dfsutil.exe /spcinfo' and 'dfsutil.exe
/pktinfo' on the client machine where this access is failing. (dfsutil.exe
is a support/reskit tool)

--
Thanks
Mukul [MSFT]

PS: Please post DFS related queries in newsgroup
microsoft.public.win2000.file_system. Please use "DFS" in subject to make it
immediately noticeable.

PS: Please find latest dfsutil.exe (updated) at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=82E8DEC3-C7A3-4B5B-
9FF1-FD01B0203DC1&displaylang=en

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights

All of a sudden this started cropping up in our network. Users started
getting errors with DFS shares. Here is what happens.

When user tries to open the DFS location they get the error
\\dfsroot.mydomain.com could not be found. When they try accessing the same
files using direct share \\server1\... it works!

For some users it even works when they type \\dfsroot but fails when they
try \\dfsroot.mydomain.com

For some users deleting the shortcut to DFS and recreating them solved the
problem. For others nothing worked!

All help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Bhargav Shukla

 

[Mukul Gupta [MSFT]]

Sure. Do collect this data and send to us when see this happening again.
What you are trying to do is most common scenario so there should not be
issue here at all.

--
Thanks
Mukul [MSFT]

PS: Please post DFS related queries in newsgroup
microsoft.public.win2000.file_system. Please use "DFS" in subject to make it
immediately noticeable.

PS: Please find latest dfsutil.exe for Win2003 (updated) at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...C3-C7A3-4B5B-9FF1-FD01B0203DC1&displaylang=en

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights

Unable to reproduce the problem at the moment. WIll send you outputs as soon
as I find a client where I can reproduce the problem. Sorry for delay but
it's a big campus and things get weird not going our way sometimes.

Thanks,
Bhargav

Is "dfsroot.domain.com" your domain DNS name? What is the exact UNC path
that you access here (for ex. \\domainname\rootname...)?

Please send me the output of 'dfsutil.exe /spcinfo' and 'dfsutil.exe
/pktinfo' on the client machine where this access is failing. (dfsutil.exe
is a support/reskit tool)

--
Thanks
Mukul [MSFT]

PS: Please post DFS related queries in newsgroup
microsoft.public.win2000.file_system. Please use "DFS" in subject to

make

it
immediately noticeable.

PS: Please find latest dfsutil.exe (updated) at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=82E8DEC3-C7A3-4B5B-

9FF1-FD01B0203DC1&displaylang=en

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights

 

[Chris Warwick]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=82E8DEC3-C7A3-
4B5B-9FF1-FD01B0203DC1&displaylang=en

Hi Mukul,

Can you tell us what's been updated in the downloadable version of DfsUtil
referred to in you link?

Thanks
Chris

 

[Mukul Gupta [MSFT]]

It has mainly fixed some issues related to export & import facility for DFS
namespaces.

--
Thanks
Mukul [MSFT]

PS: Please post DFS related queries in newsgroup
microsoft.public.win2000.file_system. Please use "DFS" in subject to make it
immediately noticeable.

PS: Please find latest dfsutil.exe for Win2003 (updated) at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...C3-C7A3-4B5B-9FF1-FD01B0203DC1&displaylang=en

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights