1.5 Prerequisites/Preconditions

The DFS: Namespace Management Protocol is an RPC interface and, as a result, has prerequisites common to RPC interfaces. These prerequisites are specified in [MS-RPCE].

Before a client invokes this protocol, it obtains the name of a server that supports DFS services and RPC.

To avoid conflicts between updates to DFS metadata:

• At most, one client can modify the metadata for a given DFS namespace at a time.

• A domain-based DFS server performs all DFS metadata updates to the primary domain controller (PDC) independently of the DFS root scalability mode setting of the DFS namespace.<2>