We just started migrating our CIFS data from 7-mode to CDOT system. For our remote office data we use riverbed for acceleration and what we are finding out that if “-is-advertise-dfs-enabled” is set to true then it will not accelerate the CIFS traffic. Per Netapp and Riverbed we have to turn this off on the CIFS Vserver for all the data and then enable it for shares we want the dfs advertise to work. Our issue is that we have over 200 shares which do not pass through riverbed appliance and are not affected but we still have to turn it off and there are only about 10 shares for which we want this to be disable. If I follow the solution by Netapp then I would disable on the vserver and then enable it for the 200 or so shares manually and also I have to remember it to do it for new shares.

 

We use DFS for name space only and not for replication. What I am not clear is to what this setting would do if I turn it off for all the CIFS data? Does that mean I cannot map the drives using dfs path or something else. Anyone has run into similar issue and what did you do to resolve it. Any help is appreciated.

 

Mustafa Sayla

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