Article ID: 224508
Article Last Modified on 8/13/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
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SUMMARY
Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server use server clustering and provide cluster failover capabilities for a standard Distributed File System (Dfs) root. When you are creating a cluster file share resource in Cluster Administrator or by using the command-line utility (Cluster.exe), an existing Dfs root configuration is not migrated. This article describes a procedure that an administrator can use to add this configuration information to the clustered Dfs root.
NOTE: If there is currently a Dfs root defined on any node in the cluster, the creation of the file share resource does not succeed and the following error message occurs:
All existing Dfs roots must be removed before creating the cluster file share resource as a Dfs root or defining an existing cluster file share resource as a Dfs root. The Windows 2000 version of Dfs Manager does not have a feature to save and restore the child node configuration. This functionality is in Dfs version 4.1 that is available at the following Microsoft Web site:
Steps to Migrate
- Go to the computer that contains the Dfs root to be migrated. You can also use this procedure on a remote computer if needed if the computer has network connectivity and you have administrative rights to the Dfs server.
- Run Dfsadmin.exe from a command prompt.
- On the Dfs menu, click Save As, and type a name such as Dfs.csv.
- Start Microsoft Excel or any other spreadsheet program that can read .csv files, and then open the file you created in step 3.
- If the virtual server name for the Dfs root will be different from the existing server name, modify the Name column.
- Save the file with the modifications with a new name, such as Dfscluster.csv.
- Create the cluster file share resource as a Dfs root with Cluster Administrator or Cluster.exe.
- Test the cluster functionality to ensure that it fails over properly.
- Run Dfsadmin.exe, and then connect to the new Dfs root.
- On the Dfs menu, click Load, and then select the file you saved in step 6.
- Quit Dfsadmin.exe.
- Start the Windows 2000 Dfs Manager tool.
- Verify that the child nodes are configured properly.
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