Bobj,
What you seem to be saying is that the application requires a mapped drive
and does not work with a UNC.
Leaving aside the application, DFS is working if you can browse to the DFS
path (e.g \\Data\pay\pay.mdb and it takes you to the actual path of the data
on the server (e.g \\Server1\pay\pay.mdb). You can tell what the physical
server is by right-clicking the DFS path.
In your case you say that the application does not work with the UNC path.
In my experience finance apps are often like this. But you can still map a
drive to a DFS path, so that F: is \\server1\applications\pay\pay.mdb.
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.com
Post by BobjHi Anthony,
Thanks for your reply. We have an application that looks for its data on a
mapped drive using this path F:\applications\pay\pay.mdb. This is the path
currently set. We have moved the data onto another server and the app could
not find the data. I used the the UNC path as follows to try and resove the
issue. \\server1\applications\pay\pay.mdb. This did not work either. We
have 3 servers set with DFS and the data was moved from one of these partners
to another. The ultimate goal is to remove the original partner and just
have the 2. When I use the UNC path from the run command, I can see the data
no problem.
Many thanks
Bob
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RJ
Post by Anthony [MVP]Are you sure you are looking at the target folder, and not at the DFS
namespace?
An example using the actual names would be useful
Anthony
http://www.airdesk.com
Post by BobjHi,
We have recently set up DFS on our servers. On some of the shares we are
unable to view the contents unless we use a UNC path. Even logged on to the
server as Administrator and browsing to the folder there appears to be no
date present. Any help with thjis would be appreciated
Thanks
Bob
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RJ