Good afternoon,
I have a few users who get this error randomly, can be multiple times a day can be every other day,
"The DFS Namespaces service failed to initialise the shared folder that hosts the namespace root. Shared Folder: DFS
These are drives mapped by Group Policy.
Restarting does bring them back.
I had a constant ping test running from one of the machines for 2 days to the dfs server both ip and hostname
showed no disconnection / no packletloss yet the problem here persisted
after it happened i did a flush dns and then did a dns lookup on the dfs server that then cached the the new dns records
and this still didnt resolve the issue, still not able to access the drive
the actual error the user gets is
Windows cannot access -
Check the spelling of the name otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click diagnose.
Any ideas?
Users machine running Windows 10
DFS server windows 2012 r2