Server Basics (13) | DFS Distributed File System

[@dougalvis]

Great demo, nothing like 'TELL-SHOW-DO' for quick learning. Thank You for your willingness to share with others for our benefit - I have watched ALL your vids, very helpful, please keep them coming!

[@PC-Addicts]

Thank you for the kind words Doug... much appreciated! In the process of remodeling my home to sell. Once moved into my new home, I will be pumpin' out a lot of videos!

[@nerdly44]

I'm just getting into using DFS for share management at my company, so I thought I would take a look at this video to get my feet wet. Thanks a ton for it. It is really helpful!

[@garybaglin2840]

new to 2008 and this is awesome, you have just made my life about 100x easier. You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

[@Chouharder]

Hey Chris. I must admit all your videos have helped me out so much. I've always wanted to get into Server related activities and your videos are by far some of the best. They are short, go into the right amount of detail and also watching you do it means I can join in too. :) Thanks for all your effort.

[@DesktopWiz]

Excellent video, I could never quite figure out exactly what DFS did before watching this, as usually we have our server guys take care of that and just give us the populated namespace.

[@imsun8812]

You are most welcome, pls keep contributing and I learned a whole lot from you. I don't have to go for boot camp any more to get the same training . Nicely put.

[@MarkKessler43]

Thanks, Chris. Super helpful video. It really helped to demystify the setup without bogging down in the minutiae of facts that had me put this on the shelf for too long. I set up 3 VM DCS in my lab this morning using Linked Clones (via your other very helpful tutorials :)). It is so cool to be able to watch replication happen by having my 3 DFS folders side by side and transferring or deleting a bunch of big files. Thanks again!

[@PC-Addicts]

Ooh, great idea... ya - I will shoot some vids on that - but might not be for a while (super super busy with a lot of junk right now). Thanks for the comment and advice!

[@forrealz4261]

Just heard about DFS earlier today. Now after watching your video, I feel that I am quite familiar with it. I've used personal syncing software for clouds, but this is great for a Windows enterprise. Thank you.

[@PC-Addicts]

Sweet! Thanks for watching and commenting. Glad it helped ya out!

[@msven]

Great video. Much appreciated. New to Server 08, hopefully getting a job as a Sys Admin soon and this helped clear up my big questions on DFS

[@Wahinies]

Very nifty! I am tasked with setting up the DFS for a Lync on-prem project (which requires more and more servers the more we discover... ever hear of a witness server? LOL) and this video helped a lot in understanding how it functions and how to set it up. Thank you!

[@thearchangelgab]

Dug the video, just looking into this for the first time and the video helped me understand what some of the documentation is talking about. Cheers!

[@PC-Addicts]

@MrSoundshark Very good point about running freenas instead of server 2008. Freenas is nice for certain scenarios, but my opinion (for my environment), I prefer Windows Server 2008 r2 instead. Another note, the R2 release requires 64bit (correct me if I'm wrong, but P4's were 32bit). Again you could still just run the non R2 32bit version. Thanks for the comments as always too!

[@PC-Addicts]

Thanks... glad I was able to help ya get a better idea of what DFS is. Some Sys Admins don't like to share info for some reason. I think Sys Admins should share as much info as possible.

[@PC-Addicts]

Thanks for the kind words.. and I hope it was able to assist with some things for ya!

[@PC-Addicts]

You are welcome... glad you found it helpful! DFS could be pretty confusing at first.

[@PC-Addicts]

I'm running Enterprise... you made a good point, I haven't looked into that yet. Thanks for sharing and I will read up on it.

[@ultimus1998]

Thanks for the vid man! I appreciate you taking the time to put this together!

[@PC-Addicts]

Hey there... sorry for the delay. Just noticed I had some comments I didn't respond to. When DFS detects a conflict, it uses the version of the file that was saved last. Moves the other file into the DfsrPrivate\ConflictandDeleted folder. Remains there until Conflict and Deleted folder cleanup... more to it, but bottom line I would say is: it uses the last saved version.

[@PC-Addicts]

You are welcome Mark... Super glad the videos have helped ya out!

[@PC-Addicts]

@geekint0sh Nope... not at all LOL. I am an early bird! Wake up around 4AM every morning - even weekends without an alarm LOL. You are welcome for the video, thanks for the comment!

[@PC-Addicts]

Sweet! Thanks for the comments... I hope they will help ya out with setting up your lab!

[@derfahnder88]

Thanks for the introduction! Will test it out to simplify our network shares!

[@davidkimkan]

Nice video on DFS, I understand it a lot better now.

[@PC-Addicts]

+David Kan Thank you! Glad I could help!

[@PC-Addicts]

ROFL... Good observation bro... I'm an early-bird... love getting up early, studying, testing, learning, helping others, etc... :)

[@PC-Addicts]

Thank you for your comments! Glad you found the video somewhat helpful... I hope to produce many more for System Administrators, or others looking to improve their skills :)

[@PC-Addicts]

Oh wow... sorry for the delayed response Mike. I don't always get the alerts that I have pending comments. Great question! I don't want to suggest an answer yet without myself fulling testing this but from my research it will happen as soon as it sees a change.

[@etripp111]

Thanks again Chris, great info. I wish I had found your channel last semester..........

[@PC-Addicts]

+Eddie Thrasher You are welcome! I wish you had too! :)

[@VRfaces7]

Thanks a lot! You have a great way of explaining things in a simple, newbie-friendly manner. Kudos! ;)

[@PC-Addicts]

+Radu Andrei You are welcome - Thanks and glad I can help!

[@PC-Addicts]

You are welcome, and thanks for the comment!

[@archiearchie26]

Awesome presentation. Very easy to understand.

[@tt2166]

Thanks man for sharing. Informative and helped me understand dfs better.

[@ArtificialBrain414]

thanks for the good video! i have a question. Suppose you have 2 folder targets with different content on each one, and you dont use the replication option. Wich content is going to be showed? thanks!

[@PC-Addicts]

Ooh, sounds like a fun challenge. I have not yet had to mess with different domains and DFS.

[@terencewalton8512]

Thank you Chris great videos...You are a great teacher keep at it...thanks again

[@SuperNov365]

Awesome, good job and great explanation! THANKS

[@dillonalexander6689]

I love your videos, very clear and precise.

[@adamkane9218]

Great tuto! I have a question: is it possible to deny access for non domain computer from getting into the network sharing?

[@PC-Addicts]

There are NEVER any dumb questions! If you are talking about on my computer within these videos, I am almost positive I was running the servers virtually. Take a look at the website and search for 'Building the Ultimate VirtualBox Lab'. That will explain it all and hopefully help you build your lab.

[@zpwang]

Simple and clear, thank you.

[@christianrachele2212]

Hey Chris,! thank you very much for this video regarding DFS, its was very clear!. Thx a lot.!

[@PC-Addicts]

@MrKoolTutorials Thank you for the comment bro!

[@johnstokes9453]

Hi Chris, Great video - as are all the others in the series. Thanks for sharing them with us. With a DC (2008R2) and two Member Servers (Win7s) at my disposal I tried setting up the Replication group with the 2 Win 7 systems but alas no joy. I received an error basically stating that the following targets cannot be added as they are running client OSes. Is it the case that you can't set this up with Member servers. I'm a bonafide rookie when it comes to DFS. Regards JS

[@richardgould3166]

Hi Chris, Just been watching the video (thought it was great by the way) and wondered, does it copy across all the file permissions? I have an old server that I want to decomission and am thinking of using DFS Replication to move it to another server. What happens when I remove the old (master) server? do all the files remain in the secondary location? Cheers Richard The Geek

[@JoelRodriguez1]

Thank you for your videos cant wait to see more

[@PC-Addicts]

Thanks! I'm glad I was able to help ya out!

[@jerichojon]

Hi once they are replicated does that mean the stdc-1 will have a local copy of that folder and its contents from stdev-1? They are now 2 identical folders on the same network?

[@PC-Addicts]

You are welcome... glad it helped ya out man!

[@maharshad]

excellent. One question on replication (sync). if \\fs1\A has two files and same folder on \\fs2\A has 0 file ( not replicated yet). If the replication is set \\fs2\A -->\\fs1\A , what will happen 1. would it remove file from \\fs01\A ( which has 2 file) 2. or whatever source or target in sync setup, both file server \\fs01\A & \\fs02\A will have 2 files after replication/sync please explain

[@RUSTYP0LE]

also, is there any benefit in having the namespace server setup on the remote DC or should it be on the DC at the main office?

[@RUSTYP0LE]

Hi Chris, Assuming DFS is setup as per your video, what is the behavior if a users opens a file from the host server and makes changes while another user has the same file open via the DFS namespace share at the remote site? cheers,

[@wesleyfikes]

I was curious if you might know how to do this same thing so that my remote offices with different domain names could all access a folder?

[@PC-Addicts]

Great information - thank you for sharing!

[@cheex18]

Hi Chris, I'd like to use DFS to sync files between two server in our accounting office with a remote DR center we have. if a user was to open an existing excel file, make a change and save would I have to wait for replication to happen to see that file updated on the other size. is DFS a good tool for what i'm trying to do or would you suggest another like ViceVersa or DoubleTake

[@brittzkrieg]

Very helpful. Thank you, Chris!

[@PC-Addicts]

BBBBBrittany You are welcome. Thank you for the feedback!

[@higildo]

Thank you so much for sharing your video. I really appriciate it! God bless you!

[@PC-Addicts]

+JUNGGIL PARK Thank you!

[@MrSoundshark]

Still following your vids mate keep up the good work, I put a system together yesterday running freenas and 5 3tb drives but thats running on a dual 3.2 p4 ith 4 gig ram asugested by the min requirements is there any real gain for me doing this or could i just run it as another server r2 and share the space i cant see any realy advantage of running freenas over server 2008

[@bbcoachlara]

good video, I'm moving to 2008 r2 from 2003 and I'm reading a lot about AD replication and sysvol now being replicated with dfs.. can you add that component to this or another video on dfs... very helpful man, thanks.

[@jaythrilla3398]

Hey I have a question.. When you are controlling more than 1 servers on your computer.. Does that mean that there are more than 1 physical servers??? For every server your working on, is there a different physical computer? Sorry if that's a dumb question I'm new to this..

[@ni7enichi]

What version are the servers running? Enterprise, Standard, etc? I believe standard edition only supports standalone DFS.

[@PC-Addicts]

You are welcome. Let us know how it goes!

[@vladcernohorsky5541]

Thanks Chris that was very helpful

[@PC-Addicts]

You are welcome! Glad to help!

[@PC-Addicts]

@imsun Thanks for the comment!

[@imsun8812]

Awesome tutorial. Congrats a whole lot.

[@PC-Addicts]

Future videos will definitely be zoomed in more.

[@canoncola]

great video, thanks for the knowledge!!

[@torianoevans]

Great Explanation!! Thanks!

[@blodder]

I must point out the problems you might get into when you use DFS combined with replication in a prouction environment. It is important to make sure you have a proper backup in place before you start working with DFS. I have seen problems with DFS quite a bit, especialy with replication between 2 sites where people are working on the same data in 2 different locations. DFS is great but you need to understand how it properly works.

[@mosmvp]

keep up the good work. Awesome

[@trevorkruse1137]

Great Video man!!

[@PC-Addicts]

Thanks Trevor!

[@trevorkruse1137]

I liked how you showed how to do it and different scenarios. Helps cuz I'm a visual learner.

[@PC-Addicts]

Awesome! Glad it helped ya out!

[@PC-Addicts]

Awesome thanks... glad it helped!

[@MrSoundshark]

Yeah its only 32bit so ill have to run the 32 bit edition but as it will just been running file sharing ps3 media server and maybe dfs as per your video i dont think it will cause me any issues my biggest problem so far is trying to decide what roles to run on which servers so i dont waste a decent server on a low load task

[@PC-Addicts]

Hey Drake... perhaps one of these days - I am so backed up with other topics I have promised to cover, I don't want to commit to any new ones yet.

[@watman14]

Great video! Subscribed.

[@cacousins2000]

Excellent Video!!

[@PC-Addicts]

+Colin Cousins Thanks!!

[@ZorlacSkater]

Can someone tell me if all the servers have to be in the same domain ? Thx for the video :-) !

[@jpjeffery]

You were recording this at 5am? Dude!

[@MrSrinivas1221]

amezing explanation. .. thanks alot, wil help us

[@PC-Addicts]

+Balaji K Thanks! You are welcome! :)

[@fahedthecool]

Very easy to understand. Thanks.......

[@PC-Addicts]

@geekint0sh Awesome comment thanks bro! Appreciated!

[@PC-Addicts]

Glad it helped ya out.

[@sivachandran0]

Superb awesomeness video :-)

[@PC-Addicts]

Thanks! :)

[@michaelbested123456]

awsome videos thx. can you please make one descriping wsus on server 2008r2?

[@clintonpollehn6134]

thx... very nice and informative

[@MohamedErrami]

great tnks so much how about replica over vpn mpls

[@PC-Addicts]

@lewisthemusician Great question LOL. It would definitely help!

[@craziefro]

Thanks for the video

[@PC-Addicts]

+craziefro You are welcome!

[@tahahaider2522]

what about remote environment

[@PC-Addicts]

No problem!

[@PC-Addicts]

LOL... I get up around 3:50AM every morning (even weekends).

[@PC-Addicts]

Thanks... and your welcome ;)

[@ibnjarah]

Thanks alot, much appreciated

[@arunrana5050]

plz zoom the video.. not able 2 see cleearly

[@liamclifford4254]

This is what IT essentiels didn't teach me :(

[@lewisthemusician]

If i watch all your videos can I become a sys admin?

[@lysakhda]

Thanks you som much!

[@PC-Addicts]

You are welcome - hope it helped ya out!

[@bigtim1888googlemail]

tyvm gr8 help cheers :)

[@PC-Addicts]

I'm an early bird :)