Good suggestion. I just tried, and both the long short domain names resolve to the same IP address.
On a couple of machines, unjoining from and then rejoining to the domain cleared up the issue. But we have a handful left that that isn't working for. John From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DFS Only Works with "Pre-Windows 2000" Domain Name 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]<mailto:[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<file:///\\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<file:///\\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<http://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]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ 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
