Discussion:
how to replicate DFS namespace between 2003-R2 and Win2003sp1 serv
(too old to reply)
Claud Cutler
2009-02-16 05:34:01 UTC
Permalink
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2. I created a DFS
Root/Namespace and want to replicate folders to other servers running
Win2003sp1.
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I must use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?

Thanks,
Claud Cutler
Danny Sanders
2009-02-16 14:52:52 UTC
Permalink
Post by Claud Cutler
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I must use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Upgrade them to SP 2 and run setup 2 from the second disk of the R2 set and
use DFSR. You can not mix DFSR with FRS.


hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2. I created a DFS
Root/Namespace and want to replicate folders to other servers running
Win2003sp1.
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I must use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Thanks,
Claud Cutler
Claud Cutler
2009-02-16 18:21:01 UTC
Permalink
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can use the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?

Thanks,
Claud
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I must use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Upgrade them to SP 2 and run setup 2 from the second disk of the R2 set and
use DFSR. You can not mix DFSR with FRS.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2. I created a DFS
Root/Namespace and want to replicate folders to other servers running
Win2003sp1.
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I must use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Thanks,
Claud Cutler
Danny Sanders
2009-02-16 19:05:04 UTC
Permalink
Post by Claud Cutler
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can use the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?
Lets backtrack. Windows 2003 R2 is a 2 disk set. I've seen the first disk of
Win 2k3 SP 1 OR Win 2K3 SP2. In each the second disk is the new and imporved
"features" R2 provides.
Post by Claud Cutler
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2.
It sounds like your existing Win 2k3 R2 disks are SP2. In order to use the
second disk of the R2 set to upgrade a Win 2k3 server to R2, you need to
have the server at the same SP level that the first disk of the R2 set
installs. Again it sound like your first disk will install Win 2k3 SP2.

To upgrade the features to R2 on servers that were not installed as Win 2k3
R2 you would first make sure the servers were up to the SP level your second
disk of the R2 set requires, in your case it "looks" like your second disk
of the R2 set is expecting a server with SP2. Once you get the server to SP
2 then you will install the updated features R2 provides (DFSR) by running
setup2 from the second disk of the R2 set. Once installed you will need to
go into add remove windows programs and select the DFSR components you want
to install.


hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can use the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?
Thanks,
Claud
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I
must
use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Upgrade them to SP 2 and run setup 2 from the second disk of the R2 set and
use DFSR. You can not mix DFSR with FRS.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2. I created a DFS
Root/Namespace and want to replicate folders to other servers running
Win2003sp1.
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I
must
use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Thanks,
Claud Cutler
Claud Cutler
2009-02-16 19:12:01 UTC
Permalink
our R2 disks are R2 with SP1... I manually installed SP2. So it sounds
like I can just install DFSR on the Win2003sp1 servers now, no requirement to
install SP2 at this time. (SP2 is on the board, just not yet unless required
now).

Claud
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can use the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?
Lets backtrack. Windows 2003 R2 is a 2 disk set. I've seen the first disk of
Win 2k3 SP 1 OR Win 2K3 SP2. In each the second disk is the new and imporved
"features" R2 provides.
Post by Claud Cutler
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2.
It sounds like your existing Win 2k3 R2 disks are SP2. In order to use the
second disk of the R2 set to upgrade a Win 2k3 server to R2, you need to
have the server at the same SP level that the first disk of the R2 set
installs. Again it sound like your first disk will install Win 2k3 SP2.
To upgrade the features to R2 on servers that were not installed as Win 2k3
R2 you would first make sure the servers were up to the SP level your second
disk of the R2 set requires, in your case it "looks" like your second disk
of the R2 set is expecting a server with SP2. Once you get the server to SP
2 then you will install the updated features R2 provides (DFSR) by running
setup2 from the second disk of the R2 set. Once installed you will need to
go into add remove windows programs and select the DFSR components you want
to install.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can use the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?
Thanks,
Claud
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I
must
use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Upgrade them to SP 2 and run setup 2 from the second disk of the R2 set and
use DFSR. You can not mix DFSR with FRS.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2. I created a DFS
Root/Namespace and want to replicate folders to other servers running
Win2003sp1.
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I
must
use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Thanks,
Claud Cutler
Danny Sanders
2009-02-16 19:48:46 UTC
Permalink
Post by Claud Cutler
our R2 disks are R2 with SP1... I manually installed SP2. So it sounds
like I can just install DFSR on the Win2003sp1 servers now, no requirement to
install SP2 at this time. (SP2 is on the board, just not yet unless required
now).
If your R2 disks are with SP1 you just have to put in the second disk of the
R2 set and run setup2 and let it fly.
You should be aware there are a lot of DFSR patches that are included in
SP2, you should try to go to SP2 ASAP. In fact I would suggest holding off
on setting up any DFSR until all the servers were at SP2.



hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
our R2 disks are R2 with SP1... I manually installed SP2. So it sounds
like I can just install DFSR on the Win2003sp1 servers now, no requirement to
install SP2 at this time. (SP2 is on the board, just not yet unless required
now).
Claud
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can
use
the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?
Lets backtrack. Windows 2003 R2 is a 2 disk set. I've seen the first disk of
Win 2k3 SP 1 OR Win 2K3 SP2. In each the second disk is the new and imporved
"features" R2 provides.
Post by Claud Cutler
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2.
It sounds like your existing Win 2k3 R2 disks are SP2. In order to use the
second disk of the R2 set to upgrade a Win 2k3 server to R2, you need to
have the server at the same SP level that the first disk of the R2 set
installs. Again it sound like your first disk will install Win 2k3 SP2.
To upgrade the features to R2 on servers that were not installed as Win 2k3
R2 you would first make sure the servers were up to the SP level your second
disk of the R2 set requires, in your case it "looks" like your second disk
of the R2 set is expecting a server with SP2. Once you get the server to SP
2 then you will install the updated features R2 provides (DFSR) by running
setup2 from the second disk of the R2 set. Once installed you will need to
go into add remove windows programs and select the DFSR components you want
to install.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can
use
the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?
Thanks,
Claud
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I
must
use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Upgrade them to SP 2 and run setup 2 from the second disk of the R2
set
and
use DFSR. You can not mix DFSR with FRS.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2. I created a DFS
Root/Namespace and want to replicate folders to other servers running
Win2003sp1.
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I
must
use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Thanks,
Claud Cutler
Claud Cutler
2009-02-16 19:53:01 UTC
Permalink
this can be my excuse to push SP2 to the top of our project list...
which would you do first: install R2-DFSR or SP2 ?
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
our R2 disks are R2 with SP1... I manually installed SP2. So it sounds
like I can just install DFSR on the Win2003sp1 servers now, no requirement to
install SP2 at this time. (SP2 is on the board, just not yet unless required
now).
If your R2 disks are with SP1 you just have to put in the second disk of the
R2 set and run setup2 and let it fly.
You should be aware there are a lot of DFSR patches that are included in
SP2, you should try to go to SP2 ASAP. In fact I would suggest holding off
on setting up any DFSR until all the servers were at SP2.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
our R2 disks are R2 with SP1... I manually installed SP2. So it sounds
like I can just install DFSR on the Win2003sp1 servers now, no requirement to
install SP2 at this time. (SP2 is on the board, just not yet unless required
now).
Claud
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can
use
the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?
Lets backtrack. Windows 2003 R2 is a 2 disk set. I've seen the first disk of
Win 2k3 SP 1 OR Win 2K3 SP2. In each the second disk is the new and imporved
"features" R2 provides.
Post by Claud Cutler
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2.
It sounds like your existing Win 2k3 R2 disks are SP2. In order to use the
second disk of the R2 set to upgrade a Win 2k3 server to R2, you need to
have the server at the same SP level that the first disk of the R2 set
installs. Again it sound like your first disk will install Win 2k3 SP2.
To upgrade the features to R2 on servers that were not installed as Win 2k3
R2 you would first make sure the servers were up to the SP level your second
disk of the R2 set requires, in your case it "looks" like your second disk
of the R2 set is expecting a server with SP2. Once you get the server to SP
2 then you will install the updated features R2 provides (DFSR) by running
setup2 from the second disk of the R2 set. Once installed you will need to
go into add remove windows programs and select the DFSR components you want
to install.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
Danny, to be clear... upgrade the servers to Win2003sp2 then I can
use
the
disks from R2... the servers do NOT have to be R2, just Win2003sp2?
Thanks,
Claud
Post by Danny Sanders
Post by Claud Cutler
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I
must
use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Upgrade them to SP 2 and run setup 2 from the second disk of the R2
set
and
use DFSR. You can not mix DFSR with FRS.
hth
DDS
Post by Claud Cutler
our main server is running Win2003 R2 with SP2. I created a DFS
Root/Namespace and want to replicate folders to other servers running
Win2003sp1.
since Win2003sp1 servers do not support DFS Replication, I assume I
must
use
FRS. Can anyone give me some general guidelines please?
Thanks,
Claud Cutler
Loading...