Mapping a DFS Folder to a SharePoint Resource Library

Question

_{Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:29 PM}

We are implementing DFS in order to take advantage of file replication for backup purposes.  We also want to streamline our network shares and plan on implementing namespaces to do this.  The IT shares are numerous and as a test I would like to create an IT namespace and add the multiple folders from multiple server including an IT document repository on our SharePoint server.  Is this possible?  I can access the servers docs using Windows explorer \sharepoint\it\itdocs perfectly fine but when I try to add the folder in DFS it gives an error that the folder does not exist; the only shares that are showing on that server are two long GUIDs and both return the error "Cannot enumerate all objects"...  Is this possible?  Is there something I need to enable in SharePoint first?

Thanks!

Tony

All replies (2)

_{Tuesday, February 5, 2013 8:58 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Tony,

There is no specific article to prove it will work or not. From your description, it seems that the access will work if a sertain folder target is set before accessing. So it seems work improperly by combine DFS with SharePoint.

So instead of using DFS, could you create symbolic link instead as a workaround?

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_{Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:41 PM}

Upon further investigation, it seems to work sometimes.  If I go to the properties of the share, click the DFS tab and click check status, it returns Okay.  I can then access the share for a little while but after some time it gives me the "Windows cannot access \domain\dfsshare\.."