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Hello All,
I am having more DFS trouble. I just can't seem to wrap my head around it. My supervisor has asked me to see if there was a way to show different companies Data folders within each DFS root link. For example:

\\Domain\Company AShared(name of folder which is on a DC)
               \Company A (link to main data folder)
                   \Company B(this link will be located under link above ?)

Now we can map a drive to Company A's link and we should see all folders within the min data folder as well as a folder called Company B which is a link to all of Company B's folders.

Is this possible? Am I making any sense whatsoever?
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Not 100% sure of the layout you're looking for....but it sounds like you need to make use of both Folder Targets, and Folders, to organize your DFS root.

Within DFS - Folder Targets are the virtual folders that map to real shares elsewhere on the network. Whereas Folders don't map to anything, they're just a way to better organize the way your DFS namespace is presented to the end user.

So I'm guesing 'Company A' would be a Folder Target that points to \\someserver\main_data_share....underneath the Company A Folder Target you'd create just a Folder named 'Company B' (this points nowhere basically)....then underneath that Folder, you could create multiple Folder Targets that point to the actual shares that company B needs to see?

Let me know if I'm way off base....

here's a good set of articles - this specific link is for Configuring DFS Namespaces, but at the beginning of the article you'll see links for 3 other DFS articles the same author has written about implementation, replication, etc.:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-DFS-Namespaces.html
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I apologize for not getting back to this question sooner. I tried creating an empty folder under the folder target but there is no selection for it? Is it because I'm using standard edition?
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Understood. I did think i was going a bit crazy at first but I'm glad to know it just maybe a limitation of DFS and not me. Thanks for your help so far aissim.
I guess there is no way for me to do what I had wanted to do so