Hi,
Customer with SBS at central site has got a new office location. I plan
to put in a VPN tunnel between the two sites and add another server
2003/8 box at the remote location making it a member server - DC ?.
There is a single share at the SBS site that needs to be at the remote
location so was planning to use DFS for this.
Is this a viable option, are there any gotchas ?
Thanks
Simon

A few years ago I tried to do DFS. It worked sort of and then went to
crud. I spent many months and burned up lots of Microsoft support
trying to get it working again. Gave up on that and used ViceVersa by
TGRMN and set it up as a scheduled task every 15 minutes. I guess that
program is a GUI on top of Robocoy.

Note that your vpn tunnel is no faster than the slowest link. I hope
you have T1s at both ends.

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:26:53 -0600, "Cliff Galiher - MVP"
<cgaliher@newsgroup> wrote:

>SBS 2003 (windows 2003 in general) does not support DFS-R, which is what you'd
>usually use to implement this type of topology. I'd look at making those
>files available another way. Sharepoint, a terminal server, etc.
>
>-Cliff
>
>
>"Simon" <simon@newsgroup-it.co.uk-remove.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:uPnsScA3KHA.4028@newsgroup

>> Hi,
>> Customer with SBS at central site has got a new office location. I plan to
>> put in a VPN tunnel between the two sites and add another server 2003/8
>> box at the remote location making it a member server - DC ?. There is a
>> single share at the SBS site that needs to be at the remote location so
>> was planning to use DFS for this.
>> Is this a viable option, are there any gotchas ?
>> Thanks
>> Simon

See what SBS support is working on
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/default.aspx
Check your SBS with the SBS Best Practices Analyzer
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive...A/default.aspx

Yes, Server 2003 R2 (not SBS 2003 R2) or better is needed to implement a
DFS-R solution of this kind. Anything less has just been frustrating. A
relative static and small remote share copy can be done using other methods
or tools.

Cliff Galiher - MVP wrote:

> SBS 2003 (windows 2003 in general) does not support DFS-R, which is
> what you'd usually use to implement this type of topology. I'd look
> at making those files available another way. Sharepoint, a terminal
> server, etc.
> -Cliff
>
>
> "Simon" <simon@newsgroup-it.co.uk-remove.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:uPnsScA3KHA.4028@newsgroup

>> Hi,
>> Customer with SBS at central site has got a new office location. I
>> plan to put in a VPN tunnel between the two sites and add another
>> server 2003/8 box at the remote location making it a member server -
>> DC ?. There is a single share at the SBS site that needs to be at
>> the remote location so was planning to use DFS for this.
>> Is this a viable option, are there any gotchas ?
>> Thanks
>> Simon

--
/kj

Thanks for the replies,

alternative method it is then. I need something to run hourly and just
copy changed files, The setup is small and (2 users) so there should be
little traffic. Both sites on adsl with about a 5-600k upstream. Should
I make the second server a backup DC, can't see the need myself.
Simon

kj [SBS MVP] wrote:

> Yes, Server 2003 R2 (not SBS 2003 R2) or better is needed to implement a
> DFS-R solution of this kind. Anything less has just been frustrating. A
> relative static and small remote share copy can be done using other methods
> or tools.
>
> Cliff Galiher - MVP wrote:

>> SBS 2003 (windows 2003 in general) does not support DFS-R, which is
>> what you'd usually use to implement this type of topology. I'd look
>> at making those files available another way. Sharepoint, a terminal
>> server, etc.
>> -Cliff
>>
>>
>> "Simon" <simon@newsgroup-it.co.uk-remove.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:uPnsScA3KHA.4028@newsgroup

>>> Hi,
>>> Customer with SBS at central site has got a new office location. I
>>> plan to put in a VPN tunnel between the two sites and add another
>>> server 2003/8 box at the remote location making it a member server -
>>> DC ?. There is a single share at the SBS site that needs to be at
>>> the remote location so was planning to use DFS for this.
>>> Is this a viable option, are there any gotchas ?
>>> Thanks
>>> Simon

>

Robocopy or something similar, especailly if there is a master share or no
chance of a file modification collision.


Simon wrote:

> Thanks for the replies,
>
> alternative method it is then. I need something to run hourly and just
> copy changed files, The setup is small and (2 users) so there should
> be little traffic. Both sites on adsl with about a 5-600k upstream.
> Should I make the second server a backup DC, can't see the need
> myself. Simon
>
> kj [SBS MVP] wrote:

>> Yes, Server 2003 R2 (not SBS 2003 R2) or better is needed to
>> implement a DFS-R solution of this kind. Anything less has just been
>> frustrating. A relative static and small remote share copy can be
>> done using other methods or tools.
>>
>> Cliff Galiher - MVP wrote:

>>> SBS 2003 (windows 2003 in general) does not support DFS-R, which is
>>> what you'd usually use to implement this type of topology. I'd look
>>> at making those files available another way. Sharepoint, a terminal
>>> server, etc.
>>> -Cliff
>>>
>>>
>>> "Simon" <simon@newsgroup-it.co.uk-remove.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:uPnsScA3KHA.4028@newsgroup
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Customer with SBS at central site has got a new office location. I
>>>> plan to put in a VPN tunnel between the two sites and add another
>>>> server 2003/8 box at the remote location making it a member server
>>>> - DC ?. There is a single share at the SBS site that needs to be at
>>>> the remote location so was planning to use DFS for this.
>>>> Is this a viable option, are there any gotchas ?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Simon

--
/kj