How to lock files across DFS servers

Question

We have servers replicated via DFS.

If someone is editing a file on one server, the second DFS server does not know this, and will let someone else open up that same file on the other end.

Is there a way to have the second DFS server know that a file is locked, and thereby pass that information to the other DFS server, so that it cannot be opened again, causing possible data loss?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you so much for posting here.

This is an unfortunate "missing" feature when it comes to DFS. This article would probably be an interesting read:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/askds/understanding-the-lack-of-distributed-file-locking-in-dfsr

Hope the information is helpful. Thanks.

Best regards,
Hannah Xiong

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Answer 2

Hi @Bill Tkach ,

Unfortunately there's no functionality within DFS to know whether the files are locked or not, so I'm afraid this isn't possible.

You can however suggest feedback about this over here:
https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/295047-general-feedback

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Best regards,
Leon

Answer 3

So DFS is dead, is what that says to me.
Microsoft wants us to use another technology instead.

Roger that.