question about DFS and GPO

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Brian Desmond
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"Altria" <urbantec92@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
> I am running two win2k3 AD with GPOs deployed to XP machines. I enabled
> folder redirection as well as other shares that are needed by the client.
> Now, suppose the first AD failed, I have the second server as a backup AD
> but all the shares would be lost to the clients from the first server
going
> down. For example, the path would be \\firstserver\Share. Would it be
better
> to create a DFS on the server or somewhere else and have all redirects to
> there. So, theoretically if one server goes down the other will take over
> such things as DNS requests and AD requests?
> Basically, I would like a server crash to be transparent to an end-user?
> Is this the way to go or I am going off on a tangent?
> TIA
> Altria
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