In his talk on Deploying and Administering FRS at MEC, Dave Golds talked about the dangers of copying sysvol because of the issue (as Tim mentions) with junction points. The default behaviour of XCOPY is "follow the link". So for example, using DELTREE on the copy would follow the link back to the original data! For more information on this see:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q324175 For more information on the manipulaton of junction points see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q205524&; Tony ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Tim HInes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 23:43:26 -0500 Somone must have tried to copy sysvol to the users home folder. In doing so it screwed up the junction points that the sysvol directory uses. To resolve this use linkd.exe. If you run "linkd c:\winnt\sysvol\sysvol\domainname.com" it should link to c:\winnt\sysvol\domain. You should also run linkd on the folder that sysvol was copied to to determine if there is a link. Use linkd to delete bad links and create the correct ones. Tim Hines, MCSA, MCSE (2000 & NT4) MVP - Active Directory ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Brinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:37 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] FRS problem > I have a very strange problem with FRS that I'm not sure how to fix. It > seems that the Sysvol information has been copied to another place on my > file server and is being updated by FRS. So I have the normal > c:\winnt\sysvol, then a folder at d:\home\cht\winnt\sysvol as well. > D:\home\cht is a former employee's home directory. I have no idea how or > when this copy was made, but I'm guessing someone dragged the contents of > c:\ into the d:\home\cht folder. If I drop a file in the scripts folder, it > gets replicated. There is also a System Volume Information folder in the > d:\home\cht folder, I'm not sure if this is related or not. > > I'm farily new at the company so have very little background on how this > folder actually came to be. I'd really like to get it out of the replication > though. If anyone has any pointers on how to do this, please pass them > along!! > > Thanks, > Adrian Brinton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
