DFS Replication in R2

[Bhavin78]

How replication works in R2?
I have server One which host Namespace and has Target Folder Accounting.
I have another server (Server 2) on same domain different site which also hosts Namespace same as Server one. It also has Accounting Target Folder replicated from server one.

How and what it's going to replicate? Server1 is primary.
What if a user in site one / Server 1 access accouting folder and make some changes and add new files and at the same time user in site 2 / Server2 accesses accounting folder deletes few files make some changes etc
in this case what will be the final result.

 

[rharmeson]

I am a bit confused from your post, but let me say this: Assuming Server 1 was initialised with <namespace> creating \\server 1\Files Files then targets Accounting share. Server 2 does not require a duplicated <namespace> but does require Accounting share. One primary server will keep the namespace information. If the is within Active Directory, you will be using multi-master replication anyway. See

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/Mitch_Tulloch/

for a tutorial regarding the setup. Just be careful not to us the DFS Console (Legacy) or you will create a FSR replication not DFS-R replication set.

 

[Bhavin78]

I have followed the same article
I have created namespace on server 1 and also added server 2 as namespace for backup in case server 1 goes down.

I created Folder target Accounting 1 on Server 1 and 2.
Question is on replication.

what if user make changes on accounting folder on server
one and two at the same time, who will win?

what if there are multiple changes made on both accounting folder on server 1 site 1 and server 2 site 2, what changes will win? how to make this run better?

Is it possible I can make accounting folder on server 2 read only and only use for backing up remote office data?

 

[rharmeson]

Have you tested these issues? How are you enabling two users to open the same file - essentially?

 

[Bhavin78]

I tried this myself (as an administrator)opening files on both server and making changes to both files.

What's the use if user cannot access files on server 2 site 2 (branch office) and make changes to those files?