“Why does the DFS client not return a complete list of DFS links in a referral request?” If you’ve never looked at a very large DFS Namespace link referral list before, you might not have noticed this either. For most companies, there’s only one really big list – SYSVOL. As you know, the Domain System Volume (SYSVOL) share is actually a special-cased DFS link that only runs on domain controllers and doesn’t require any special set up other than DCPROMO to configure.

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