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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I’m stumped. Anyone seen this before?
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> John Hornbuckle
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> MIS Department
>
> Taylor County School District
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> www.taylor.k12.fl.us
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