We're having an issue with a few pieces of software (Bentley XM software, Primavera P3, and a few others) locking up when going through a DFS namespace. If we map a drive directly to a target folder ...

My company recently merged with another company. Both companies had AD and DFS in place. However, users in one forest/domain can not reference the other forest's DFS namespace. <BR><BR>Points of ...

Distributed File Systems Namespaces, commonly referred to as DFS Namespaces or DFS-N, is a Windows Server server role that is widely used to simplify the deployment and maintenance of SMB file shares ...

Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article will ...

In my previous article, “Implementing DFS Namespaces,” we saw how to create a namespace (a virtual folder tree) using the enhanced DFS Management console of Windows Server 2003 R2. This article ...

Distributed File Systems Namespaces, commonly referred to as DFS Namespaces or DFS-N, is a Windows Server server role that is widely used to simplify the deployment and maintenance of SMB file shares ...

This week I was busy with a number of things, including trying to deploy a distributed file system (DFS) namespace using several servers running Windows Server 2008. Setting up the namespace was ...