http://nerdboys.com/2008/09/19/windows-dfs-brain-damage/ Tech tips, news and reviews Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:08:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://nerdboys.com/2008/09/19/windows-dfs-brain-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-10151 KellyC Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:07:52 +0000 http://jojosoho.com/?p=39#comment-10151 Thanks for the heads up; this fix worked like a champ for me. I had a network switch freak out and my DCs weren't talking to each other for half an hour and after getting them back up all the clocks on the network were off by an hour. I fixed that but then random machines couldn't find the DFS roots and I was getting the error above "Can't find the file specified." It was weird. I moved around FSMO roles and rebooted both domain controllers but still had the issue. Adding to the strangeness, I could usually reboot a workstation twice and it would then map again but a single reboot wouldn't work. I removed and re-added the DFS Root Targets as you suggested and suddenly things started working again without even having to log out of broken workstations. Thanks! Thanks for the heads up; this fix worked like a champ for me. I had a network switch freak out and my DCs weren’t talking to each other for half an hour and after getting them back up all the clocks on the network were off by an hour. I fixed that but then random machines couldn’t find the DFS roots and I was getting the error above “Can’t find the file specified.” It was weird. I moved around FSMO roles and rebooted both domain controllers but still had the issue. Adding to the strangeness, I could usually reboot a workstation twice and it would then map again but a single reboot wouldn’t work.
I removed and re-added the DFS Root Targets as you suggested and suddenly things started working again without even having to log out of broken workstations.
Thanks!

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