- Setting Up a DFS Root
- Adding Root Links
- Creating a Link Replica
- Conclusion
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Adding Root Links
To make our new root useful, we'll have to add some links. Right-click your root listing in the left pane and choose New Link to get the New Link property sheet shown in Figure 7.
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7 Adding a link.
The first field is to name the root. It is what your users will see when accessing this link. You'll likely name it the same as the share you're mapping to, as shown here. The next field is the UNC path to the share instantiating the link. In the example, I have a share called Accounting located on a machine called IO somewhere else on my network.
The amount of time clients cache this referral in seconds is for polling share information between the user and the root. Let's say I have a user connect to my Accounting link, but then I happen to redirect this link to another share somewhere else on my network. By default, it will take 1800 seconds for the user to get the updated information that the Accounting link is now redirected to another resource. A half-hour seems like a good value here to start with.
If you take a link offline, a user cannot write or receive data from the link share before getting information from the next poll. Even if you have a replica for the link set up (discussed in next section), a user will not be redirected until the cache referral time has been expired. It is up to you as administrator to decide whether a smaller value is worth the extra network traffic when polling information between the root and users connected to it for more frequent updates. The max value you can set here is 3600 seconds or 1 hour.