DFS Namespaces with offline files

7 Jul 2009 10:32 AM

Ondrej Sevecek

Hello,

is it supported to mark DFS namespace folders to be available offline? What
happens when a user moves to a different site and the referals are
redirected to a different (may be not synced) folder?

Client is XP and Vista.

thank you very much.

ondrej.

7 Jul 2009 11:42 AM

Anthony [MVP]

Works perfectly.
As far as the client is concerned it is just a path, resolved by the DFS
client service.
Of course if you have two replicas out of sync then the synchronisation of
what is up to date or not will be different, but that is a problem with the
synchronisation, not with Offline files.
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.com

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"Ondrej Sevecek" <ondrej.sevecek@community.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> is it supported to mark DFS namespace folders to be available offline?
> What happens when a user moves to a different site and the referals are
> redirected to a different (may be not synced) folder?
>
> Client is XP and Vista.
>
> thank you very much.
>
> ondrej.
>
>

8 Jul 2009 8:50 AM

Ondrej Sevecek

so what happens, when this is the setup:

SMB physical shares out of sync:
\\srvA\shareA\fileX version 1
\\srvB\shareM\fileX version 2

combined into DFSN hierarchy:
\\domain.local\DFS\share --> \\srvA\shareA, \\srvB\shareM

klient accesses \\domain.local\DFS\share\fileX and marks it as available
offline while reffered to srvA.

what happens when the users is switched to the srvB's referal?

ondra.

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> Works perfectly.
> As far as the client is concerned it is just a path, resolved by the DFS
> client service.
> Of course if you have two replicas out of sync then the synchronisation of
> what is up to date or not will be different, but that is a problem with
> the synchronisation, not with Offline files.
> Anthony,
> http://www.airdesk.com
>
>
> "Ondrej Sevecek" <ondrej.sevecek@community.nospam> wrote in message
> news:uEk2H5u$JHA.1376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> is it supported to mark DFS namespace folders to be available offline?
>> What happens when a user moves to a different site and the referals are
>> redirected to a different (may be not synced) folder?
>>
>> Client is XP and Vista.
>>
>> thank you very much.
>>
>> ondrej.
>>
>>

8 Jul 2009 10:29 AM

David Shen [MSFT]

Hello ondrej,

Thank you for posting here.

Q: is it supported to mark DFS namespace folders to be available offline?

Generally speaking, we can enable available offline for DFS namespace share
folders. However, there is some limitation on the scenario. For the
limitation of using DFS, Offline Files, redirected folder, please refer to
the section "Q. Can I use DFS with Offline Files and redirected My
Documents folders?" in the following link.

Distributed File System: Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/dfsfaq.mspx

Support for DFS-based shares for Offline Files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=262845

Q: What happens when a user moves to a different site and the referrals are
redirected to a different (may be not synced) folder?
A: There could be cause some inconsistence of the shared folder on that
server in the new site the users move to.

Hope it helps.

David Shen
Microsoft Online Technical Support

10 Jul 2009 2:49 AM

David Shen [MSFT]

Hi ondrej,

I want to see if the information provided was helpful. Please keep us
posted on your progress and let us know if you have any additional
questions or concerns.

We are looking forward to your response.

David Shen
Microsoft Online Technical Support