I'm not sure if I understand your problem completely, but if you have DFS shares in multiple sites, linked by slow connections, you do have to tell DFS to only use intra-site DFS shares, otherwise you might end up connecting through a slow link. AFAIK, DFS only goes through this selection procedure when connecting to the share, or if the share becomes unavailable. I have two DFS replicas running in the same site, and when I connect, DFS picks one, and stays there as long as possible. Speed is just as fast as over a regular share connection. Are you sure you're not reconnecting after each query or something? ps: you can always check what connections are attempted to which server by doing a 'netstat 1' just before effecting the query Lars