Compare your DNS resolution between the good and bad machines...
*ASB *(Professional Bio <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... * On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:24 PM, John Hornbuckle < [email protected]> wrote: > I’ve got a handful of Win7 clients that are having trouble with DFS. When I > say a handful, I mean half a dozen out of several hundred (seemingly, but > apparently not) identical client machines. All the rest work fine. > > > > When you try to access DFS from the bad machines, browsing to > \\our.domain.name\our.dfs.path, you get “Access is denied” even when > logged in as a user with full permission to access everything. However, DFS > content can be accessed just fine from these machines if you use the shorter > “Pre-Windows 2000” domain name (e.g., \\domain\our.dfs.path). The problem > is that our AD GPOs all use the long domain name, so software deployment > fails on these machines. > > > > The issue is machine-specific, not user-specific. Any user who logs into > the bad machines has the problem. The same user can log into a good machine > and access DFS with no trouble. > > > > I’m stumped. Anyone seen this before? > > > > > > > > John Hornbuckle > > MIS Department > > Taylor County School District > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
