After hours of frustration i decided to post my question on the Microsoft forum. I'm hoping that someone can help me out.
I recently started a project to split our enormous fileservers into multiple smaller fileservers. Last week i tried to migrate our fileserver containing the homedirectorys of 3000 user account. It has 5 disks (1 disk per site). These disks needed to be equaly devided along 2 new fileservers.
To summarize our current DFS structure
Root DFS namespace: \\example.com\data\
- Fileserver (SERVER01) had 1 shared folder (HOME) containing multiple mountpoints (site1 / site2 / site3 /site 4 / site5)
- DFS folder target \\example.com\data\home pointing at \\SERVER01\Home
New situation
- From the DFS management console we deleted the old DFS namespace folder \\example.com\data\home and created a new folderwith the same name (no target attached to this folder)
- We then created multiple subdirectorys under \\example.com\data\home
It would look something like:
- \\example.com\data\home > no DFS folder target
- \\example.com\data\home\site1 > DFS folder target pointing to \\SERVER01\SITE01
- \\example.com\data\home\site2 > DFS folder target pointing to \\SERVER01\SITE02
- \\example.com\data\home\site3 > DFS folder target pointing to \\SERVER02\SITE03
- \\example.com\data\home\site4 > DFS folder target pointing to \\SERVER03\SITE04
Share- and NTFS permissions where the same as before.
After the migration our clients where not able to access the new DFS folder or subdirectorys \\example.com\data\home
When i renamed the 'Home' folder to something else eg \\example.com\data\testing it worked perfectly
Looked like some sort of caching was in the way so i waited about an hour or so and tested again, but still the same result.
Whats going on?