Windows 7 dfs client settings

You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Configuration information could not be read from the domain controller, either because the machine is unavailable, or access has been denied.

On Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, you may receive one of the following error messages:. To resolve this problem, you must evaluate network connectivity, name resolution, and DFSN service configuration. You can use the following methods to evaluate each of these dependencies.

In this article, connectivity refers to the client's ability to contact a domain controller or a DFSN server. Determine whether the client was able to connect to a domain controller for domain information by using the DFSUtil.

The output of this command describes the trusted domains and their domain controllers that are discovered by the client through DFSN referral queries. This is known as the Domain Cache. In the following example, both the DNS domain name contoso.

If the client accesses the DNS name contoso. The other entries were obtained through referrals by the DFSN client. To evaluate connectivity, try a simple network connection to the active domain controller by using its IP address. For example, type either of the following commands:.

If the connection is successful, determine whether a valid DFSN referral is returned to the client after it accesses the namespace. The root has two targets rootserver1 and rootserver2. The link has a single target fileserver. If you cannot find an entry for the desired namespace, this is evidence that the domain controller did not return a referral.

DFSN service failures are discussed later in this article. If not any of the namespace targets that are listed are designated as ACTIVE, that indicates that all targets were unreachable. Try to access to each namespace server by using IP addresses. Note that you can have more servers set as roots, but all of your DCs MUST be roots to avoid any funky behavior later.

After that initial referral DFS will kick in and your clients should all be talking to the nearest servers. Quick test on that DNS being site-aware bit: Do an nslookup against your domain repetitively and see if the list of IPs fully rotates or if just the nearest server s stay on top.

If the whole list rotates through then you'll definitely need to configure that remote DC to be a root, and then turn your attention towards configuring AD Sites and Services followed by making DNS site-aware. I've got separate sites setup in Sites and Services with the relevant subnets attached to them, so it should know which site I'm in. Nslookup domain. The three remote DC's are never above my two local DC's.

I have run into a similar issue in the past. In our case the DFS shares were being created by group policy. Sometimes the group policy would take to long to load and the shares would not get created. If this is how your creating the DFS shares on the client you may want to take a look at one of the offending machines and see if that part of group policy is being applied before log on.

I've never seen it, or remember it, being connected to the other local DC unless I change it. On one of the clients that had a problem today I tried swapping the active server, and after a little while the shares did reappear.

Although I can't tell if that sorted it as sometimes the shares reappear on their own. In fact, I think they always reappear on their own, however as all our clients map drives to a share that's disappearing in the DFS root, it just depends how long the client is willing to wait for their mapped drive to come back before shouting for us.

This also isn't every day, maybe a couple of times a week, and typically for a couple of users at a time. It's just enough to annoy them when it happens. Check to see if offline files has kicked in - Using DFS with offline files gets funny when Windows detects a server as being offline, even it just for a 'slow connection'. In fact, I just had an issue like that this morning.

Wired into the network but he had been in a meeting and best I can tell Windows tried doing a test while he was walking and it got very angry. If you pull up that HomeFolders folder look for a "Work Online" button at the top of the window, and the offline status at the bottom of the window.

Creating the DFS Namespace and Root When creating a DFS namespace, the administrator requires local Administrator group access on each of the servers hosting the namespace, and if a domain namespace is selected, the administrator also requires domain-level permissions because the domainnamespace information is stored in Active Directory.

To create a DFS namespace and root, follow these steps: Log on to the Windows Server R2 system with an account with local server administrator privileges. Select the Namespaces node, and in the Actions pane, click on the New Namespace link.

When the New Namespace Wizard opens, type in the name of the server that will host the namespace, and click Next. On the Namespace Name and Settings page, type in the name of the share previously created, and click Next. A pop-up window opens, asking whether the existing share should be used. Click Yes to use the previously configured share. If the share does not exist, the wizard will prompt you to create a file share from an existing folder or a new folder.

Although the wizard can simplify the process by automating this task, it does not provide a method of configuring NTFS permissions. On the Namespace Type page, to create a domain-based namespace, select the appropriate option button and check the Enable Windows Server Mode check box to enable scalability and allow for access-based enumeration within the namespace. On the Review Settings and Create Namespace page, review the namespace settings and if everything looks correct, click Create to start the namespace creation.

On the Confirmation page, if the result status is reported as a success, click Close to complete the process.