Tag: DFS

  • Problem accessing DFS subfolders

    User cannot access \\corp.company.com\dfs\company\subfolder. Subfolder is missing, however user can access \\corp.company.com\dfs\home\%username% which has offlinefiles enabled. When I loggon with my admin account I get access denied when trying to access \\corp.company.com\dfs\company. It works from other computers however, so the problem is isolated to this specific client. I found this solution: www.sirkit.ca/wiki/2012/11/windows-domain-dfs-namespace-access-is-denied-using-domain-fqdn-access-allowed-using-server-unc-paths-directly 1.  Disable offline…

  • Slow response DFS namespace

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244380 http://serverfault.com/questions/50789/long-pause-when-accessing-dfs-namespace KB244380 says: “The DFSDnsConfig registry key must be added to each server that will participate in the DFS namespace for all computers to understand fully qualified names.” We thought this meant that the registry key has to be set on the DFS namespace servers only, not realising that it was also required on…