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Create shared folders and targets

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Create shared folders and targets

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- [Instructor] After you've created the name space structure, the next step would be to create the folders and the targets to those folders. So here, I'm still on my Member 1 member server, and I'm in DFS Management, where I've just created the landonhotel.local Demo DFS share. To create the folders, I simply right-click and select New Folder. Now I need to give this folder a name, so I'm going to call it Demo 1. Once I've given it a name, as part of this process, we also have to assign folder targets. So I'm going to click on Add, and the path of where I'm going to put Demo 1, you're going to love this. I'm going to put it in \\member-2\demo1, okay? So that might seem backwards, but I'll explain in a minute. I'm going to go to the second member server and create a share called Demo 1, and click OK. And it's going to say hey, this share doesn't exist, do you want to create it? And I'm going to Yes, I would like to create…

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