DFS Replication Not Working

Hello everyone:

I am a Novell user who has finally made the big leap to Windows 2008 less than a month ago. I have 2 ADs and 2 file servers in my datacentre with DFS installed. I enabled replication services just about 10 days ago. After the initial replication from the primary fileserver to the second server, all subsequent modified and new files/folders are not being replicated.

There are a lot of eVENT 5002 errors in the eventvwr DFS

The DFS Replication service encountered an error communicating with partner FS1 for replication group castnet.ca\data\foundation.

Partner DNS address: FS1.TCAS.CA

Optional data if available:
Partner WINS Address: FS1
Partner IP Address: 172.160.0.26

The service will retry the connection periodically.

Additional Information:
Error: 1753 (There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.)
Connection ID: 20F1AC51-44E4-4664-A7C9-E65EA97949C9
Replication Group ID: C3B56BF7-522F-4C34-8711-89782E722EF7

Thank you all in advance.

In Microsoft Windows Server 2008, the Distributed File System technology is renamed to DFS Namespaces. In order to resolve your above issue, you need to check out the following links.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272279

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;898900

Hope so it may help you out.:thumbup1:

Download DFS Replication Management Pack and install the same in your system. This is a nice monitoring tool that will help you to monitor and fix various issues with DFS Replication. The tool give you information on the health of this service. If there is any problem it will notify you. You can on that basis troubleshoot the same. Using a monitoring tool is much more helpful because it gives you more information and proper details. It also give you description of errors so that you can actually find out what is happening in your system. Run this tool and try to update what you go from this.

DFS Replication Management Pack

DFS Replication Management Pack can only help you with monitoring the service. But when it comes to troubleshooting then you need something more advance. For that you can download and install Ultrasound - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Tool for File Replication Service (FRS). It is a free tool and available on Microsoft site for download and test out. This is not just a simple monitoring software. The tool give you details information on the health of service you are using. You can also on the same hand monitor the progress and detect if there is any problem found.