RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and DFS

[Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)]

Edwin,   It is not recommended to store user profiles on DFS volumes.  The reason is because there could be a replication issue that could corrupt the volume.  Here are two good articles that cover profiles.  The last one has a best practice guide.   http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsait/TrainingDoc/Documents/Win2k/User_Profiles.doc   http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/39193/pg/1/1.html   Todd Myrick From: Edwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and DFS   Last week I sent the below question to this thread.  I apologize for having to resend it but my mail server experience problems and I am not sure if there were any replies to my question.  If there were any posts to my question, would someone please resubmit it to the list so that I can read it?  Below is what I previously wrote.   Thank you. Edwin     Currently I am working in a test environment with 2 Win2K3 DC’s and 1 Win2K3 member server (all standard Edition).  The member server is intended to be a File server where a users roaming profiles are stored.  On our production environment has this same exact setup.   The reason why I want to use DFS is because the user profiles are stored on a single IDE drive.  The company did not want to spend more money on RAID.  Before you ask, “Yes, the OS is RAID’ed.  It is just the IDE drive I am immediately concerned about.   In the test environment I setup DFS and all appears to be good.  Now I create a user and setup the profile to point to the path \\ad.testdomain.com\sharedfiles$\%username% where \\ad.testdomain.com\sharedfiles$\ is the DFS root that I established.   When I attempt to login, I am presented with an error message stating that the default profile will be used and any changes made to the profile will be lost because permission is denied.   My question is if this is the way that DFS is intended to be?  From what I gather, I am only able to write to the DFS root of the file server if I call the machine that directly i.e. \\testserver\sharedfiles$ and have replication take over from there.  Shouldn’t I be able to write to the DFS root directly?   Thank you all for your responses.   Edwin