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Post Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:38 am   Post subject: Active Directory/Domain Controller Reply with quote Back to top  
OK, I'm in the process of setting up my Domain Controller to handle all my logins, and setting up Active Directory with folder redirection.

One of my possible issues is that I personally, travel to multiple sites, 2 of which have DCs. My boss also travels between the 2 sites with DCs.

Is it possible to have the servers synchronize the users My Documents (which are being redirected) so that when I'm logged in at Site A and my doc's are sent to the server, and then travel to Site B, have the servers compare notes and synchronize, so that when I get to Site B, my recent doc's are there as well?

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Post Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:24 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
That's beyond my meagre and piss-poor knowledge of AD, I'm afraid. All I can suggest is to read up about DFS; I remember it's something to do with making resources available without forcing the users to remember arcane and abstruse UNC paths. Might help, might not.

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Post Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:32 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
T wrote:
All I can suggest is to read up about DFS;


Should help, although I've never done it for folder redirection.

DFS, in a very rudimentary nutshell, syncs files from server to server. I would have to assume that if one of the DFS shares was "user folders" that this would do what you want.

However, you say 2 DC's. Primary and Secondary, or two different domains? If the later, that could become conserably more difficult, as the AD UID's will no longer match.

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Post Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:12 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
At the risk of being booted out of "OS-Microsoft"... happy8

DRBD does exactly this.

http://www.drbd.org/

One of our bigger clients uses it to run a multi-primary-node clustered filesystem. (As opposed to classic primary/standby failover cluster arrangements.) I.e., you can have your directory mounted on as many servers as you like simultaneously (entirely transparently, I would assume). It sounds like quite clever stuff.

Apparently it works quite well for them and it's Free Software too.

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Post Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:08 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
DFS would be ideal for this, just ensure that you have off-line folders DISABLED otherwise you will have some conflicting issues.

And just to clairify, the DC's at both sites are part of the same domain?


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/default.mspx

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Post Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:58 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
they are a part of the tree? i think is the term. but yes. pembroke.uhsinc and westwood.uhsinc

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