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DFS Namespace is blank in some sites

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JPJeffery

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May 26, 2006
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We've had a namespace in place for over a year and it's worked fine.

Until last Thursday when a couple of client PCs could still see the namespace but with almost NO contents.

Looking at the local paths on the member servers shows them to be full of the data we'd expect to see...but you can't see them when browsing to the namespace.

The only things you can see are two linked folders, one of which matches the name of the replicated source folder. If you browse in to that link you can then see the expected contents. Look at the properties of one of the folders and choose the DFS tab all you see listed is the source server, not the member servers.

This behaviour is only true in our London office. The namespace behaviour in our New York and Hong Kong offices is as it should be. Specifically, the namespace is fully populated, the DFS referral list shows all the member servers I'd expect to see and as the New York member server is currently down the NY client PC is connecting to the Hong Kong member server for its DFS data.

JJ
[small][purple]Variables won't. Constants aren't[/purple]
There is no apostrophe in the plural of PC (or PST, or CPU, or HDD, or FDD, or photo, or breakfast...and so on)[/small]
 
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