I am trying to do something similar. Basically I have several shares
across the organisation, however because I am putting all users into a
single access point I want to be able to set dfs points that point to
"nothing", to tidy things up and keep the directory list smaller.
e.g. (simplified)
Server 1 has share \\server1\hra
Server 1 has share \\server1\brb
Server 2 has share \\server2\ita
Server 2 has share \\server2\itb
Server 3 has share \\server3\fina
Server 3 has share \\server3\finb
I intend to set up a Win2K DFS structure, so that users connect only
to \\server8\dfs. What I don't want is for them to connect and just
see six dfs links in the share, e.g.
\\server8\dfs
|------- hra
|------- hrb
|------- ita
|------- itb
|------- fina
|------- finb
What I want to achieve is:
\\server8\dfs
|----Human Resources
|------- hra
|------- hrb
|----Info Technology
|------- ita
|------- itb
|----Financial Dept
|------- fina
|------- finb
So far I have created the initial DFS, and managed to create DFS links
as in the second part above by manually creating a Human Resources,
Info Technology etc directory in the file system (i.e. not through DFS
admin but creating the directory directly in Windows Explorer) then
creating the DFS link. The links work fine and under the dfs share you
can see HR, IT etc and move into the subdirectory and go to hra, hrb
etc no problem. However upon rebooting the server, the manually added
directories are all deleted when DFS starts up, hra and hrb links etc
are all then inaccessible (although you can still see them in DFS
admin). I tried setting permissions to give SYSTEM no access to the
directories but they are still removed.
Basically the above is just a directory name with no associated DFS
link, with a subtree of DFS links. The server however deletes anything
that has no DFS link associated with it on startup although it works
before a reboot as I say.
Can this be achieved in a stable manner? I have over 600 shares to
add!
I do not have Active Directory currently.
Post by Mukul Gupta [MSFT]Hi,
Can you describe more here with example what kind of namespace heirarchy are
you trying to set? and what are you seeing? Then I can suggest ways of
achieving that heirarchy.
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Thanks
Mukul [MSFT]
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Post by JodieI'm trying to setup DFS on my win2000 servers for my
company. I am able to setup a root and then subdirectories
under that, but what I'm wanting to do is make those
subdirectories "subroots" if you will. I would like to
create a subroot for each department (ex: engineering) in
my company and under that sub, link all the directories
that they use. However, when I do this, all I can see is
the first link under that "subroot". I'm not sure what
I'm doing wrong, or if what I'm trying to do is even
possible. Any help would be great!