# [OmniOS-discuss] DFS Replication with CIFS shares

Jim Oltman jim.oltman at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 17:18:40 UTC 2015

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    On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Lawrence Giam <paladinemishakal at gmail.com>
    wrote:

    > Hi All,
    >
    > I am looking at setting up DFS replication with CIFS shares where I have a
    > Windows DFS namespace and I have multiple target folder, is it possible to
    > get DFS Replication working?
    >
    > Googling on the web shows results that say the DFS target have to be
    > windows filesystem
    >
    > https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/e37d0a9a-1759-487c-a560-b5ba60220892/dfs-replication-wont-work-with-2008-dfs-front-end-and-2-cifs-shares-on-netapp?forum=winserverfiles
    >
    > So my setup is that the SAN/NAS is running OmniOS that provides the CIFS
    > to the Windows server and with that I have setup DFS namespace with a
    > single target folder. When I tried to add another target folder to the DFS
    > namespace,the system prompted me if I want to create a replication group.
    > Proceeding forward, I got the error saying "The member is running a down
    > level operating system".
    >
    > Any help?
    >
    > Thanks & Regards.
    >

    When I was faced with this, I chose to share out zVols via iSCSI to the
    Windows machine.  It made DFS so much simpler.

    Jim
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