RW
2009-11-17 22:13:01 UTC
We have recently implemented DFS domain based while for most part all works
well there is one problem we are facing and have no idea how to work around
this. Here is what's happening which BTW is unacceptable when A user starts
up laptop offline with cached credentials then after X minutes connects VPN
at first all shared drives based on DFS are not accessible and user have to
wait sometimes up to 15 minutes and then she or he can access drives, I found
these 2 articles which describes how DFS works and this also explains 100%
why we having this issue, it is not a bug but it is by design! which is even
more frustrating knowing that this is how it works, so my question for others
is how do you live with that, is this acceptable for your organization that
end user connecting VPN have to wait up to 15 minutes (most, sometimes less)
to get to resources.
BTW this can be reproduce in the LAN too if I start up PC disconnected from
network, login with cached credentials, wait 5 minutes then connect PC to LAN
same outcome
Here are 2 KB from Microsoft describing this issue
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/835261
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291377/
well there is one problem we are facing and have no idea how to work around
this. Here is what's happening which BTW is unacceptable when A user starts
up laptop offline with cached credentials then after X minutes connects VPN
at first all shared drives based on DFS are not accessible and user have to
wait sometimes up to 15 minutes and then she or he can access drives, I found
these 2 articles which describes how DFS works and this also explains 100%
why we having this issue, it is not a bug but it is by design! which is even
more frustrating knowing that this is how it works, so my question for others
is how do you live with that, is this acceptable for your organization that
end user connecting VPN have to wait up to 15 minutes (most, sometimes less)
to get to resources.
BTW this can be reproduce in the LAN too if I start up PC disconnected from
network, login with cached credentials, wait 5 minutes then connect PC to LAN
same outcome
Here are 2 KB from Microsoft describing this issue
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/835261
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291377/