I'm currently running a predominantly Win 2003 domain. I have one 2008 R2 DC and one 2003 DC. I plan to upgrade the 2003 DC to 2003 R2.
I also have a 2-node cluster running 2008 R2 Enterprise running Hyper-V. On the Hyper-V box I plan to run 5 2003 R2 file servers running DFS.
Basically, the setup was easy. As was setting up replication. The VMs can be seen from the corporate network, as can the shared folders. The DFS Namespace is domain based.
\\SERVER A\Distribution - has 3 folders. It is part of a replication group with \\SERVER B\Distribution. All 3 folders are replicated.
SERVER A PATH: e:\Distribution\<folders>
SERVER B PATH: e:\Distribution\<folders>
They are not on the System Drive.
The problem comes when I pause Server A (which is equivalent to shutting it down).
I can see \\DOMAIN\Distribution and the 3 folders. But when I try to access one of the folders, I get an unending loop of the same 3 folders.
Share Permissions: Everyone FC
NTFS Permissions: Admin FC, Group Modify
I'm not sure if I can post a screen shot somewhere...
NTFS Permissions are on SERVER A. I checked the permissions on SERVER B and they are the same. It seems that when I access the replica, I hit the DFSRoot folder but for some reason the link isn't being followed to the actual files.
Any help is welcome.