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DFS replication can replicate the folder contents<br />
DFS replication does not need to be run on a DC (file servers generally should not be DCs)<br />
DFS replication does not need a DFS namespace<br />
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Do you need the path to the folder is identical in each location, or do you want to have the server name in the path ?<br />
If you need the path to be identical, you need a DFS namespace.
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DFS replication can replicate the folder contents
DFS replication does not need to be run on a DC (file servers generally should not be DCs)
DFS replication does not need a DFS namespace

Do you need the path to the folder is identical in each location, or do you want to have the server name in the path ?
If you need the path to be identical, you need a DFS namespace.

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Hello,<br />
I have 2 DC's at one site. 1 is windows 2003 server and the other is windows 2008 r2 server. At another site I have 1 DC that is windows 2008 r2 server. I would like to deploy DFS on an addtional &nbsp;server (non dc) at site one and then another addtional server (non DC) at the other site. Is this possible? Does anyone have good instructions on how to do this? Is there another solution I should be looking at? My goal is to have a folder accessable at both locations by the same name.
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Hello,
I have 2 DC's at one site. 1 is windows 2003 server and the other is windows 2008 r2 server. At another site I have 1 DC that is windows 2008 r2 server. I would like to deploy DFS on an addtional  server (non dc) at site one and then another addtional server (non DC) at the other site. Is this possible? Does anyone have good instructions on how to do this? Is there another solution I should be looking at? My goal is to have a folder accessable at both locations by the same name.

Deploy DFS to Non-DCs

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.