DFS - Closest DFS Not Selected

[draqstar]

HI,
We Have Multiple DFS Pointers with Multiple DFS Replicas.

Site A Located in New Zealand has a Domain Controller, File Server and Citrix Server.

Site B (Main Site) has a Datacentre where DFS Root on Site A DC Points to Site A File Server and DFS to SITE B Clustered Server.

Shares on site B are set up as Clustered Shares.

DHCP is Issued at Both Sites and DHCP forwarding Blocked over the Route.

When users Logon to Site A (Early Morning - 6am - 8am approx) they always get Site A's DFS Pointer (Correct) however, when a Few Users login about the same time they get their Pointers from Site B (Australia) which causes major Delays in Login.

What Reasons could the USers sudddenly be sent to Site B when Site A is closer??

Any Help Appreciated.

 

[InfrArch]

Check the DHCP settings that "problematic" users get a correct IP address that is from range that belongs to siteA.
OK?

P.S. use DFS MMC from .NET server to manage your DFS structure. It's more configurable and useful tool.


Victor K
psas@canada.com
MCSE+I;MCSA;MCSE(w2k);CNE(5.1);MCNE(6);CIWSP;CIWSA.