Guest John W Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 another question... If I have a DFS Namespace set up say //mydomain/tech or //mydomain/shares/ with a folder created in the namespace say hs .....let me illustrate this as it would appear in DFS Management somewhat... Root: usd/shares Folder under root - Tech Folder under tech - Install - Targeted to another server. My question is, when someone creates something inside the "Tech" folder where is that actual file stored? On the namespace servers? If i'm using more than one server to host the namespace do those files get replicated?
Guest Anthony [MVP] Posted January 30, 2008 Posted January 30, 2008 Re: question about dfs root John, The namespace is just a virtual overlay over the physical folders and files. The namespace also needs to be stored somewhere, which is in a folder structure of its own. The namespace can itself be copied to more than one server, but that is just the namespace, not the folders and files. Replication is almost entirely independent. You can replicate non-namespace folders, and you can have namespace non-replicated folders. So the file is stored in the Tech folder that the user DFS client is connected to, and then replicated to any other replicas of the Tech folder. Anthony http://www.airdesk.co.uk "John W" <whitesj@union.k12.mo.us> wrote in message news:uzWcRK4YIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > another question... > > If I have a DFS Namespace set up say //mydomain/tech or //mydomain/shares/ > with a folder created in the namespace say hs > > ....let me illustrate this as it would appear in DFS Management > somewhat... > > > Root: usd/shares > Folder under root - Tech > Folder under tech - Install - Targeted to another server. > > > My question is, when someone creates something inside the "Tech" folder > where is that actual file stored? On the namespace servers? If i'm using > more than one server to host the namespace do those files get replicated? > > >
Guest John W Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Re: question about dfs root I put a text document in the \\usd\tech but it appears only in D:\DFSRoots\tech on server1 and not in D:\DFSRoots\tech on server2. That is the question i was asking I guess. As a user put a file in that folder but when i connected I wasn't able to see it but they were, so I guess they were connected to the other namespace server. I'm guessing there is no way to make those namespace folders replicate... "Anthony [MVP]" <anthony.spam@spammedout.com> wrote in message news:e$lWpv4YIHA.6048@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > John, > The namespace is just a virtual overlay over the physical folders and > files. > The namespace also needs to be stored somewhere, which is in a folder > structure of its own. The namespace can itself be copied to more than one > server, but that is just the namespace, not the folders and files. > Replication is almost entirely independent. You can replicate > non-namespace folders, and you can have namespace non-replicated folders. > So the file is stored in the Tech folder that the user DFS client is > connected to, and then replicated to any other replicas of the Tech > folder. > Anthony > http://www.airdesk.co.uk > > > "John W" <whitesj@union.k12.mo.us> wrote in message > news:uzWcRK4YIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> another question... >> >> If I have a DFS Namespace set up say //mydomain/tech or >> //mydomain/shares/ with a folder created in the namespace say hs >> >> ....let me illustrate this as it would appear in DFS Management >> somewhat... >> >> >> Root: usd/shares >> Folder under root - Tech >> Folder under tech - Install - Targeted to another server. >> >> >> My question is, when someone creates something inside the "Tech" folder >> where is that actual file stored? On the namespace servers? If i'm using >> more than one server to host the namespace do those files get replicated? >> >> >> > >
Guest Anthony [MVP] Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Re: question about dfs root Hi John, It sounds to me as though you have some folders mixed up. Its awfully hard in a newsgroup to keep track of which folders we are talking about. If I give an example: I want a root namespace called Shared. It is accessed as \\domain\Shared. This is going to publish every shared folder in my domain. I put the namespace folder on one server, say DC1. So a folder is created at \\DC1\Shared. But no-one uses this. It is just the placeholder. In this namespace I make folders like Finance, Sales, Marketing, etc. Finance is actually \\server1\finance but now it can be accessed as \\domain\shared\finance. Sales is actually \\server2\sales but is also \\domain\shared\sales. The names of these folders show up in \\DC1\Shared because that is the placeholder for the namespace. Now I want to make replicas of these. So I replicate the folders \\server1\finance to \\server4\finance and \\server2\sales to \\server5\sales. These are just physical replicas, and are accessed through the same namespace as before. The DFS client takes care of which physical server I go to. Now I am a bit dependent on the namespace publised on DC1, because if it goes down no-one can get to anything in the namespace. So I make a copy of the namespace on DC2. This will need a folder called \\DC2\Shared. This is not a replica. It is a copy of the namespace. So if I understand you correctly there should be no files at all in your dfsroots\tech folder. It sounds as though the namespace folder and the actual physical folders in the namespace have become mixed up, Hope that helps, Anthony http://www.airdesk.co.uk "John W" <whitesj@union.k12.mo.us> wrote in message news:OfwGliAZIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >I put a text document in the \\usd\tech but it appears only in >D:\DFSRoots\tech on server1 and not in D:\DFSRoots\tech on server2. That >is the question i was asking I guess. As a user put a file in that folder >but when i connected I wasn't able to see it but they were, so I guess they >were connected to the other namespace server. I'm guessing there is no way >to make those namespace folders replicate... > > "Anthony [MVP]" <anthony.spam@spammedout.com> wrote in message > news:e$lWpv4YIHA.6048@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> John, >> The namespace is just a virtual overlay over the physical folders and >> files. >> The namespace also needs to be stored somewhere, which is in a folder >> structure of its own. The namespace can itself be copied to more than one >> server, but that is just the namespace, not the folders and files. >> Replication is almost entirely independent. You can replicate >> non-namespace folders, and you can have namespace non-replicated folders. >> So the file is stored in the Tech folder that the user DFS client is >> connected to, and then replicated to any other replicas of the Tech >> folder. >> Anthony >> http://www.airdesk.co.uk >> >> >> "John W" <whitesj@union.k12.mo.us> wrote in message >> news:uzWcRK4YIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> another question... >>> >>> If I have a DFS Namespace set up say //mydomain/tech or >>> //mydomain/shares/ with a folder created in the namespace say hs >>> >>> ....let me illustrate this as it would appear in DFS Management >>> somewhat... >>> >>> >>> Root: usd/shares >>> Folder under root - Tech >>> Folder under tech - Install - Targeted to another server. >>> >>> >>> My question is, when someone creates something inside the "Tech" folder >>> where is that actual file stored? On the namespace servers? If i'm >>> using more than one server to host the namespace do those files get >>> replicated? >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
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