I'm trying to set up a series of servers in which web
content replicates over a dfs from between two servers (AD
based). DFS sets up correctly and replication works fine.
After replication begins the DFS server that is not the
primary replica starts to force a user to log in with NTLM
permissions or it throws a 401. All permissions on the
secondary server for the DFS remain as they should
including local IUSR permissions.

I've even fired up NTFILEMON to try and find some access
denied messages, but nothing. It just seems like DFS is
blocking the local files from being displayed by IIS. No
error, no nothing.

Could this be a result of DFS file locking or some similar
mechainism? Should I just throw this out and get Robocopy?
(NO I'm not wasting more of my money on yet another half
working MS product called Application Center....for those
flamers, try and understand what it's like to install an
updated microsoft certified scsi driver and have the whole
system tank.)

Note to Billy: Log files that actually said something
would be nice.

Re: Windows 2000 IIS using DFS by Tom

Tom
Tue Sep 02 08:18:04 CDT 2003

"Chris Eleven" <sheetbox@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:03a501c37021$6e23d6a0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm trying to set up a series of servers in which web
> content replicates over a dfs from between two servers (AD
> based). DFS sets up correctly and replication works fine.
> After replication begins the DFS server that is not the
> primary replica starts to force a user to log in with NTLM
> permissions or it throws a 401. All permissions on the
> secondary server for the DFS remain as they should
> including local IUSR permissions.

Are you using Domain accounts for IUSR and any authenticated users?

> Could this be a result of DFS file locking or some similar
> mechainism? Should I just throw this out and get Robocopy?

Robocopy works great for me.

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