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DFS Blues!
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 11:05 am
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by ryan.chapman
(4 messages posted)
Hey everyone! I am new to this forum and I thought that maybe someone can help me
out with a big DFS issue that I am having. I am going to try to explain this clearly
so just bear with me on this...
I am a Systems Administrator for a large call center that has over 30 sites all across
the USA. My issue is that some of our sites are experiencing really slow start menu
loads and I am trying to fix that. We have GPOs configured for start menu redirections
that point to a DFS share. The DFS share is configured to be stored on all of the
site's local DC.
I believe what is happening is that for the center that I work at, the start menus
are trying to be loaded from a different DFS share other than our local DC. So that
is why it's taken forever to load! I also found out something really interesting.
Let's say that the DFS share is \\contoso.org\dfs\
If I pinged contoso.org I don't get the local DC's IP address. I get another site's
DC IP address. If I wait a few more minutes, I ping contoso.org again and I get a
completely different DC IP address again! It's like contoso.org is jumping from one
DC to another DC and never pointing to our local DC at all. Could my theory be correct?
I really want to think there is something up with our DFS share. I want to make sure
that our start menu's are being pulled from the DFS share from our local DC first
and if our DC goes down, it will pull the share from other site.
All computers are using Windows XP Pro and our local server is Windows 2K3 RC1 I
believe. If you have any ideas or theories, please let me know. I want to be the
local hero! Thanks again!
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