Install DFS on Windows 2003 Server Enterprise

DCE Distributed File System or DCE DFS It is an application level protocol, according to the OSI Model. It's useful ===

Well, this time we are going to implement a DFS server in our Active Directory scenario.

DCE Distributed File System either DCE DFS

It is an application level protocol, according to the OSI Model. It is used for DCE distributed file systems in a local area computer network environment. It allows different systems connected to the same network to access remote files as if they were local files, allowing files distributed on different machines to be grouped in a single namespace.

We are going to mount it on a separate server that is not CDP or CDA (But is within the domain) since all users on our network (who have permission) will access this server to work with their files remotely as if they were on their local computer.

We have to differentiate between dfs root and link. The first will centralize access to the entire distributed file system and the links are each of the shared resources (on different hosts) that are part of the dfs root.

Let's move on to the configuration, Home > Programs > Administrative Tools > Distributed File System

We stand above File System > Right Button > New Root

The wizard for creating the new root opens.

We select root type: Domain Root

We select the domain which will host the root

We configure the host server, click on examine and it will show us the list of domain hosts, we select the server where we have mounted DFS

Following.

Here we will write the name of our root (I put the name of the shared folder created)

We tell you where the shared resource for our DFS server is, if we don't have it we create it

We finish the wizard.

we are going to create a total of 3 links in that root, Right click on the created root > New link

We get a configuration panel to assign a name to the link and the access path to it, we examine to search and select the shared folder, which in my case I call it "Central"

So on until you create the links you want, in my case I have created three

We access from the client to see if it has access: Start > Run > \SRV NAME OR IP

The shared resources of the server open and we see that Central is there and so we access it, the 3 links created previously will have to be there.

Now we are going to use replication so that everything in the Vinculo3 resource is replicated to another resource that can be anywhere and in our case it is called replication that will be in CDA, with 'new target' (a ring topology will be created, the two nodes will communicate).

We go to CDA and create the share, then we go to the DFS server.

We position ourselves in the link3 > Right button > New target