there's nothing wrong with what you're doing - DCs can host
DFS roots perfectly well and can contain link targets which point to shares on
any server in your infrastructure. The one thing that you need to be aware
of in this respect is that whoever manages the link targets in the DFS root
requires administrative rights on the DFS root server => if this is a DC,
this means it has to be a domain admin...
/Guido
P.S: small correction from the previous answer to this
post: SYSVOL share ARE handled by DFS - it's a special DFS root
which exists on every DC. And the contents of SYSVOL is obviously
replicated via FRS.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cary, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:30 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DFS on Domain Controllers
I wasn't going to have any real files on the DCs just
the DFS root and links the point to real shares on file servers.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Clingaman
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DFS on Domain ControllersThe sysvol shares are not handled by dfs. You can put dfs roots on DCs but as a matter of policy it's not a good idea to have any file shares other than sysvol on a DC. But for a small network and limited resources...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cary, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] DFS on Domain ControllersIs it a bad idea to make DFS Root Targets on Domain Controllers? If I browse to my AD 2003 domain \\example.com I see the two folders: Netlogon & Sysvol. But if I browse to \\example.com\DFS-Root I see my Links which point to shares on file servers…
\\example.com\DFS-Root\Acctg --> \\File-Server-1\Acctg
\\example.com\DFS-Root\Eng --> \\File-Server-2\Engineering
Thanks
