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Unable to manage DFS namespace from DFS MMC
Error: The namespace cannot be queried. The specified domain either does not exist. Hi, I have an issue with DFS at our site. It has been working fine for years, but recently the ability to man...
Hi DBY2025,
Your screenshot is odd since the value of "\\4rail.mid\4rail" is showing up in the description bar. It ought to be the same value as the namespace.
As to why you're only encountering this now after years of it being fine, my guess would be that you recently decommissioned something relating to 4rail.mid.
What do you get if you run the following two commands from PowerShell?
# Get the DFS root.
Get-DfsnRoot -Path "\\man.mid\gem" | Format-List -Property NamespacePath, Path;
# Get each DFS target.
Get-DfsnRoot -Path "\\man.mid\gem" | Get-DfsnRootTarget | Format-List -Property NamespacePath, Path, TargetPath;
Example output
Repeating what I said at the start, the value for ResourcePath and Path ought to be the same, but I anticipate they're not.
There's no supported way to change these values either, meaning if they don't match, you would have to recreate the namespace.
Cheers,
Lain