DFS namespace wizard

[RW]

our domain/forest is 2003 level I verified that schema was extended using
ADSI Edit and steps from this article
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773360(WS.10).aspx#bkmk_VerifyFunctionality
revision for CN=ForestUpdates, CN=Windows2003Update is 9 and objectVerion is
31 so I'm guessing we are good here. We never used previously DFS so there is
no old namespaces leftover or anything like that now I'm trying to create new
name space so I select Namespace server which is going to be one of 2 Windows
2008 Storage Servers, next I enter name for our namespace and make sure path
is located on SAN vs C drive of W2k8 server, next I'm selecting Domain-based
namespace "Enable Windows Server 2008 mode" is grayed out I'm guessing
because we are not at 2008 domain level, when I click next I get
"\\our_domain_name\root_folder_name: The namespace cannot be queried. The RPC
server is unavailable"

what I'm missing here?

[IT Staff]

our domain/forest is 2003 level. recently i upgraded the schema using
WINDOWS 2008 dvd.

The schema object version shld be 44. instead of 31. You can check
schupgr.exe and it will show version number before/after schema upgrade.

Post by RW
our domain/forest is 2003 level I verified that schema was extended using
ADSI Edit and steps from this article
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773360(WS.10).aspx#bkmk_VerifyFunctionality
revision for CN=ForestUpdates, CN=Windows2003Update is 9 and objectVerion is
31 so I'm guessing we are good here. We never used previously DFS so there is
no old namespaces leftover or anything like that now I'm trying to create new
name space so I select Namespace server which is going to be one of 2 Windows
2008 Storage Servers, next I enter name for our namespace and make sure path
is located on SAN vs C drive of W2k8 server, next I'm selecting Domain-based
namespace "Enable Windows Server 2008 mode" is grayed out I'm guessing
because we are not at 2008 domain level, when I click next I get
"\\our_domain_name\root_folder_name: The namespace cannot be queried. The RPC
server is unavailable"
what I'm missing here?

[RW]

I did not say I extend schema to 2008 I meant our domain and forest level is
2003 and I verified this...

in any case I know why this RPC error is happening to us so I'll post here
in case someone will run into same issue, our servers we are going to use for
DFS are 2008 member servers and 2008 unfortunatelly does not understand
single label domain name i.e. contoso vs contoso.com unfortunatly we have
this as left over from NT days one way to get this fix is to rename domain,
another way is to do domain migration or as a workaround add IPs of all DCs
in domain to local host file for 2008 servers. As soon IPs of all DCs are in
host file and mapped to our single label domain, not the DCs host names ! DFS
wizard to add name space will advance without any errors about RPC

Post by IT Staff
our domain/forest is 2003 level. recently i upgraded the schema using
WINDOWS 2008 dvd.
The schema object version shld be 44. instead of 31. You can check
schupgr.exe and it will show version number before/after schema upgrade.

Post by RW
our domain/forest is 2003 level I verified that schema was extended using
ADSI Edit and steps from this article
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773360(WS.10).aspx#bkmk_VerifyFunctionality
revision for CN=ForestUpdates, CN=Windows2003Update is 9 and objectVerion is
31 so I'm guessing we are good here. We never used previously DFS so there is
no old namespaces leftover or anything like that now I'm trying to create new
name space so I select Namespace server which is going to be one of 2 Windows
2008 Storage Servers, next I enter name for our namespace and make sure path
is located on SAN vs C drive of W2k8 server, next I'm selecting Domain-based
namespace "Enable Windows Server 2008 mode" is grayed out I'm guessing
because we are not at 2008 domain level, when I click next I get
"\\our_domain_name\root_folder_name: The namespace cannot be queried. The RPC
server is unavailable"
what I'm missing here?