enumerate location of dfs?

hey,

is there a way to enumerate which location the DFS is using?

normally in windows XP you can put in the dfs lecation which is

\\locaion\share
once at that location you can right click a folder, click on DFS tab and it will tell you which server it is using

\\servername

so how would i do this with a script?

Thanks?

Im not sure this is what you are refering to, but it might get you started.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/storage/dfs/stdfvb03.mspx

Hope it helps.
/Matt

Ok

DFS is a distributed file system
what that is if you have 2 servers, you can replicate data to both servers and only use 1 location

so if you have \\domain\share
this will point to \\server1\share or \\server2\share so you will get the same data anyways

so what i want to know is if you do use \\domain\share which server would it be pointing to? server1, or server2?

i explained above how you can do it manualy, but i want to be able to do it with a script

Thanks

no that bit of script i couldnt get it to work

I don't believe you (I could be wrong of course) can determine which server it will actually use using scripts. By default, it will use the server with the lowest cost according to the site and subnet information from AD. Most of the time, it will use the same one (lowest cost) unless it couldn't be reached for some reason.