First published on TECHNET on Jul 25, 2006
At least once a month a customer asks for a command-line method to enable and disable referrals for a folder target (aka link target). Neither dfscmd.exe nor dfsutil.exe provides a way to do this. In response to the many requests we get for this functionality, we’ve posted some http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/articles/443319.aspx that can be compiled into an executable tool for enabling and disabling referrals. Many thanks to Dan Lovinger, one of our DFS developers, for providing this!
Here are the parameters for using the tool:
modlink <DfsEntryPath> <ServerName> <SharePathName> [<on|off>]
And here’s an example of disabling a referral:
modlink \contoso.comdfsrootdirsharename server1.contoso.com sharename off
The above command disables the folder target (aka link target) \server1.contoso.comsharename of the namespace folder \contoso.comdfsrootdirsharename .
At least once a month a customer asks for a command-line method to enable and disable referrals for a folder target (aka link target). Neither dfscmd.exe nor dfsutil.exe provides a way to do this. In response to the many requests we get for this functionality, we’ve posted some http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/articles/443319.aspx that can be compiled into an executable tool for enabling and disabling referrals. Many thanks to Dan Lovinger, one of our DFS developers, for providing this!
Here are the parameters for using the tool:
modlink <DfsEntryPath> <ServerName> <SharePathName> [<on|off>]
And here’s an example of disabling a referral:
modlink \contoso.comdfsrootdirsharename server1.contoso.com sharename off
The above command disables the folder target (aka link target) \server1.contoso.comsharename of the namespace folder \contoso.comdfsrootdirsharename .
--Jill
Updated Apr 10, 2019
Version 2.0