Dfs and Cluster Service

If you want to provide the high available functionality offered by the Cluster service for a Dfs tree, you can define a cluster file share resource in a cluster group containing a virtual server (network name and IP address) as a Dfs root. This automatically creates the Dfs root using the network name as the server name in the Dfs namespace. The server service in Windows 2000 still announces file and print shares on all Network names defined on the system; so although the cluster group is online on one of the nodes in a server cluster, the share is accessible by the virtual server name and the local computer name. If a user connects to the local computer name and the cluster group moves to another node in the cluster, the share becomes inaccessible to the user.

For more information about using Dfs on a server cluster, see the Microsoft TechNet link on the Web Resources page at http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/reskit/webresources. Search the Technical Support section of this site for Knowledge Base articles and other sources of technical information.

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