Malachi- My first question would be--why? DFS, esp. replicated DFS, doesn't seem to be a great solution for writeable data, since you could effectively have some files inadvertantly overwritten on each replica. And, since roaming profiles essentially have some built-in redundancy by virtue of the fact that they are cached on the local workstation, the only benefit I can see in terms of using DFS would be for those users who move around to different workstations and don't have their profiles cached.
More specifically, the issue you could face is that a user logs on to a workstation and downloads a roaming profile from DFS replica A, then logs off, thus writing changes up to A, then logs back on and hits replica B instead and gets an older copy of the profile before changes have replicated from A. I think the opportunity for mess is too great for the benefit. Darren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Malachi Burke Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles I want to move roaming profiles from our regular share into a DFS folder. The setup is straightforward. Two DC's, DFS replicate to each other, highly available roaming profiles. A sanity check that this is indeed a good thing would be nice. I am also a bit concerned about DFS because the documentation is so verbose (i.e. makes my brain hurt figuring it all out). Scenario: DC1 and DC2 both are hosting DFS root \\testroot\root. They are hosting their own corresponding file shares (say \\DC1\root and \\DC2\root). Am I right in expecting that EITHER DC1 or DC2 can go offline, and \\testroot\root will still be available? Lastly, moving the profiles looks like you have to muck with ownership and permissions. I was able to brute-force move one this way (by forcefully claiming ownership and subsequent permission of the entire profile tree), but a more graceful method would be appreciated. Malachi 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/
