DFS and FRS Windows 2003 Server

[xpac]

I have two large-ish subdirectories (~ 10 GB) on a 2003 member server in San Diego, which I would like to replicate to another 2003 member server here in my office in Washington DC. These are financial directories and cannot be replicated to the other domain controllers via AD DFS, and as of right now I am not running Windows 2003 R2 (I'm looking into what we need to do to get this) so I have to use a combination of DFS and FRS, and from what I gather if I use a domain root dfs share it will be replicated to all the domain controllers which I cannot have. Can anyone give me a basic step by step as to how I would do this as a standalone dfs root? For some reason all I can find is a bunch of stuff about how to do it with R2, but I'm not running R2 right now.

Edited April 3, 2006 by xpac

[fizban2]

DFS Overview

you can find out all the info you should need off this site, there is also a word doc to download for a better overview.

[cluberti]

I would seriously consider upgrading to R2, as DFS and FRS are a LOT faster in R2 than their counterparts in SP1 and RTM.