any windows 2008 DFS experts?

[edscdk]

I dont know much about it...

dfs names space "dfs"
share "profiles"
servers SERVERS1 and SERVER2 (either side of a slow wan...
both server have replicas of the profiles share

I RDP on server1 and copy data from \\dfs\profiles and the data comes from server2 (i guess this becase it takes so long to copy) rather than from its D:\ where the share is -

Any ideas? (dfs is new to me)

(data not from the DFS transferes around on the server as one would expect)

 

[DRZ]

Because the DFS namespace is essentially DNS, you'll need to have AD sites and services set up correctly to ensure the priority is to the local DFS replica.