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January 20th, 2010 - 06:14 pm ET by Bond | Report spam
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Another thing I noticed while playing with DFS today is that if I create a
namespace on two file servers (non DC's) called Public I can connect to them
from with Windows Explorer using \\domain.local\Public but if I just type
\\domain.local the "Public" namespace is not displayed. Now, if I add a DC
to this DFS namespace, I can now see "Public" when I navigate to
\\domain.local

Why does it function this way?
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January 21st, 2010 - 08:33 am ET | Report spam
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:14:18 -0600, "Bond" wrote:

Another thing I noticed while playing with DFS today is that if I create a
namespace on two file servers (non DC's) called Public I can connect to them
from with Windows Explorer using \\domain.local\Public but if I just type
\\domain.local the "Public" namespace is not displayed. Now, if I add a DC
to this DFS namespace, I can now see "Public" when I navigate to
\\domain.local

Why does it function this way?



Because the DFS authors have not published the root name to the browser service
in the same way that Sysvol is. An oversight in my opinion but then say "by
design". It would be such a useful addition.



Dave Mills
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