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Secure file on PC and server

October 24, 2012, 12:23 am
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Hello

I have a Windows 2008 R2 file server in the main office. We are using DFS to access the files

I have a Windows 2008 R2 file server in the branch office and data are replicated using DFS (data a read/write mode)

User's laptops (windows 7) are configured to

  • access files thru DFS closest site
  • use offline files on these files

We need to secure files if the laptop and/or the branch office server are stolen. 

Data must not be readable by other people

It seems that EFS and DFS/DFSR are not compatible.

How can i do this ?

Thanks

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Administrators Can't Access Folders

October 26, 2012, 4:13 am
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Here's the scenario:

Brand new Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise server.  Set up with local Administrator account, all working fine.  A Domain Administrator (not me) joined the server to our domain and rebooted.  I logged in with my (non-Domain Admin) domain account, which is a member of the local Administrators group.  I have access to the C: drive, but whenever I try to access any of the other local drives I get 'Access Denied'.

I logged back in with local Administrator account to check NTFS permissions, and even that account had to take ownership of the folders before I could amend the security, which I didn't understand.  Anyway, I did that and then found that all of the security for drives other than C: had been wiped out - nobody had access.  So, I recreated the security, making sure the Administrators group had Full Control.  Logged back in with my domain account (DEFINITELY in the Administrators group) and still can't access those drives.

What gives?

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.tmp files appearing on network DFS node

September 6, 2012, 8:08 am
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Hi

I have have a terminal services environment.

When users log on to a partcular network share .tmp files are shown in the share.

I have looked at the folder options and made sure hidden files etc is not selected on the local machine and also on the DFS node

Does anybody know where these file are coming from and how to stop them appearing or hide them

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Unable to iSCSI boot – Intel PT NIC and Microsoft iSCSI target

March 9, 2012, 2:36 pm
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I was able to flash the iSCSI boot ROM to the Intel card but when I try to have the computer boot form the card I get a “unable to connect”. I can connect to the target though Windows when the computer is on. I have the IQN set to the MAC address so I don’t think it’s an authentication error.

From what I read Microsoft iSCSI target support booting but I can’t find out why I can’t boot from it.

Screenshots below.
Unable to Connect.

Nic Settings.

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CIFS Sessions don't Terminate till the Remote Desktop Session Host is Restarted

October 22, 2012, 12:39 pm
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We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS farm in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain. Users access their data from Network Drives mapped on CIFS Shares on SAN. Similarly users use some applications that also use CIFS shares on SAN.

Problem is that when the user logs off from an RDS Host the user's CIFS sessions do not terminate and the number of sessions for that user keeps on creeping up every day as the user logs in many times every day. When the RDS Hosts are restarted only then the sessions are terminated.

Have tried the hot fix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2537589 but no luck. I couldn't find Windows Server 2008 R2 in the hot fix list but Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 was there. Even then I applied it and obviously it didn't work.

How to resolve?

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Storage Spaces - unmark hard drive as "retired" after SATA controller failure

October 13, 2012, 3:53 am
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Hello,

I am having a problem with Storage Spaces - it won't start recovering the mirror set.
The mirror set got degraded because one of SATA ports on the controller went bad (I/O errors with any hard drive on that port).
After the hard drive is reconnected to another port, Storage Spaces still shows the drive as 'Retired'.

I can unmark the disk by running Set-PhysicalDisk -UniqueID id -Usage AutoSelect

Then, I can access a Simple (non-mirrored) thin-provisioned virtual disk located on that physical disk, and there are no I/O errors in Event Log, or any other errors.
But after I attempt to initiate Mirror set repair (Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName mirror), the physical disk becomes 'Retired' again, although no I/O errors have occured.

Seems that somewhere in the metadata there is incorrect information about actual disk health state, and I need a way to reset it.

Thank you.

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Static Port for DFSR

October 31, 2012, 11:22 am
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Hello All,

I read an article http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/07/16/configuring-dfsr-to-a-static-port-the-rest-of-the-story.aspx

to configure DFSR with static EPM port. I ran the command dfsrdiag /staticrpc /port:55555 /mem:server on our server A and then with Server B.

Now DFSRDIAG DUMPMACHINECFG on both servers show rpcportassignment as 55555.

When i took captures between two servers, I dont see 55555 anywhere but other high EPM ports.

I was under impression that once I run the command on this server. A will use any higher port and B will respond on 55555 and then both will use 55555.

Can anyone share expected behaviour of this command.

~Cheers, Rohit Kochher

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Setting a quota on each individual folder in server 2012

October 31, 2012, 11:45 am
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Hello

Is it possible to set a quota on a set of folders in server 2012 without setting the Quota on each sub folder? I am using FSRM.

for example I have set a quota on this folder

D:\share\data\department\role\

and the next folder in the tree is %username%.

Therefore I'd like the username folder to have a 500MB quota,

Is it possible to quota all folders from D:\share\data\department to all have 500MB? When I try to set a quota on this folder using the GUI I get 500MB max for the folders in total, not each one.

If not, can this be scripted?

Thank you

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Ricoh Aficio MP C2051 Scan to Folder - Windows Server 2012 Error: Authentication with the destination has failed check settings

October 31, 2012, 1:02 pm
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I have recently upgraded a clients servers to Windows Server 2012 & since doing so have lost the ability to scan to folder.

Both servers are domain controllers and previously on a 2008 domain controller I would have had to make the following change to allow scan to folder:
 Administrative Tools
 Server Manager
 Features
 Group Policy Manager
 Forest: ...
 Default Domain Policy
Computer configuration
 Policies
 Windows Settings
 Security Settings
 Local Policies
 Security Options
 Microsoft Network Server: Digitally Sign Communications (Always)
 - Define This Policy
 - Disabled

However I have applied this to the Windows 2012 server but am still unable to scan, possibly due to added layers of security in server 2012. The error on the scanner is Authentication with the destination has failed check settings.
I have also tried the following at the server:
Policies -> Security Policies
Change Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level to: Send LM & NTLM - Use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated.
Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) clients and uncheck the require 128 bit.
Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) servers and uncheck the require 128 bit
I have created a user account on the server for the ricoh and set this in the settiings of the Ricoh and verified everything is correct.

Are there any other things I have missed?

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Word 2011 + Lion + Server 2008 share

October 31, 2012, 1:09 pm
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Word 2011 + Lion + Server 2008 share

We have a Windows 2008 server sharing documents. When a Mac user opens a document with Word 2011, edits and saves it, the NTFS file permissions (which are inherited from the folder) are wiped out and replaced with permissions that allow only this user and admins to modify the document. Everyone else can still open the document. but it is read-only, and changes can't be saved.

The shared folder permissions are correct and have worked fine for years with both Windows and Mac clients. This was true until Word 2011 arrived. Excel 2011 does not have this problem, only Word 2011 to my knowledge.

When we reset the permissions so that the folder permissions are restored to all child documents, everyone can again access and modify every document. But when a Word 2011 user comes along, opens edits and saves it, the whole cycle repeats. Only work around we have found is to ask Mac users to copy the document to their desktop, modify it there and copy it back to the server. It works, but far from ideal.

Any solutions?
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DFS Deleteing reparse point files

October 31, 2012, 4:33 pm
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Hi There

We have reparse point files on our dfs share I know that these files don't get replicated which I don't care about. However these are been deleted from the share which I do care about.

Does anyone know why these files are been deleting and maybe how can prevent this from happen?

Cheers,

Brett

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file server 2003 to 2008 inplace upgrade - looking for resources

October 31, 2012, 3:01 pm
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We need to do an in-place upgrade to our primary 2003sp2 32-bit file server. I am pretty nervous because the server is so heavily utilized that it cannot even run backups ( The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty.) so I will be doing this without a safety net. )

I'm having trouble finding resources - they all seem to be about upgrading the domain or domain controllers, not simple file servers with thousands of folders, permissions (domain and local) and shares. Can anyone point me to some documentation on upgrade steps and gotchas?

Mark

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How to reinstall print spooler service

March 19, 2010, 2:03 am
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I have a windows XP printer with an HP printer attached to it. 99% of the times I have to restart the computer (restart the spooler service) to get the printer to print. I have downloaded the latest drivers for this and even run SFC /scannow to try and repair the spooler service. I have changed the USB port but nothing is helping.

I found a knowledge base article here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2000007 but when I tried to run it on my XP Pro SP3 it tells me that it cant be run on that version.

I am about to format the pc. Can anybody assist me with how to "reinstall" the spooler service before I go down the fornatting road??

 

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Foreign Disk Import, Missing Disks, and a crashed RAID

October 17, 2012, 6:51 pm
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Hello,

    Have a question that I need help with.  The RAID drives that held the VHDs for one of my servers went down.  I was able to get the RAID up and running again.  I went and got the VHDs back into the setup for the server and booted up the server again.  I had a disk that needed a MBT or GPT question, 4 Foreign Disks, and 3 Missing Disks all on the Disk Management page.  I set the one drive as a MBT, brought it online and set it to a dynamic disk.  I have since hit reactive on the missing drives and Import Foreign Disks on all the others.  So far none of the drives has actived or imported, do anyone have an ideas how to fix it?

Michael R. Mastro II

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Remoting: NET USE on DFS Share, error 1312

October 26, 2012, 7:42 am
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Hello,

we are having the following issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968264&sd=rss&spid=11737

BUG:

When psremoting (or winrs-ing) onto a client Win7x64 machine, trying to mount a DFS UNC, it fails with the following error.

[client-1]: PS C:\Users\user\Documents> net use x:\\server\dfsshare /User:company\username ******
net.exe : System error 1312 has occurred.
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (System error 1312 has occurred.:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated.



On the same machine, when mounting another share (sysvol) it does not fail.
[client-1]: PS C:\Users\user\Documents> net use x:\\server\sysvol /User:company\username ******
The command completed successfully.

If I run the same command on any client machine it does fail with the same error.

If I run the same command locally on that same client (client-1) as logged on interactive user, it does not fail.

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DFSR diagnostic sharing violations and DFSRDIAG BACKLOG of approx 15 files

November 1, 2012, 4:46 am
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One of our clients has a Windows Server 2008 file server on site that is replicating (one way) to a Windows Server 2003 server in our hosting server room.

Running a DFSR health report on either server shows there are sharing violations on approx 15 files, and a DFSRDIAG BACKLOG shows the same files in backlog. We run a scheduled task every day to verify this.

The 2008 server (authoritative/sending server) was rebooted last night. The files are still showing a sharing violation.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I have already looked at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973836?wa=wsignin1.0, but this is not applicable in this situation.

Thanks


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Setting up granular folder rights on a Windows 2008 R2 Server

November 1, 2012, 5:33 am
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We are in the process of migrating our shared drive from Novell to Windows.  On the current shared drive (Novell) users can only see the folders that they have access to.  Most users have access to more than one folder on the shared drive.

We have a NTFS volume\LUN set up on a Windows 2008 R2 server.  I have created a shared folder with SMB and Access-based enumeration enabled.

All of the users in eDir also have an AD account. We have a utility that allows us to copy the data and folder\file rights to the Windows shared folder.

The problem that we are running into is that users can see the other folders in the main shared folder.  Also users who access to a one particular subfolder can see the other folders – e.g. S:\HR\Student Workers\Sally can see the other folders under HR - S:\HR\Employee\Repermend\Bob Smith

Is there any way to achieve the same granular rights that there are in Novell  with Windows?

Thanks,

Nancy

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iSCSI initiator broadcasting on UDP port 5002

November 1, 2012, 11:27 am
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Hi,

I started monitoring my test network and found something interesting to me.  The server that is a iSCSI initiator is broadcasting UDP packets to port 5002.  I tried sniffing the production network and those iSCSI initiators are broadcasting to UDP destination port 5002 too. 

wireshark output:
source: 10.10.10.19
destination: 10.10.10.255
protocol: UDP
length: 348
source port: 55903 or 61225 but is incrementing on each server
info: destination port: 5002
data: kdrinettm.d     iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:emailhost.

The initator seems to be broadcasting every 3 seconds.  The source port is incrementing by 2 every 3 minutes or so (source was 55903, 3.5 minutes later is 55905, 3.5 minutes later is 55907, etc).

Is this normal?
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Windows 8 Pro upgrade gets "This driver has been blocked from loading" attempting to restore files from Windows Home Server 2011

November 1, 2012, 1:23 pm
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Cross posting from Windows 8 forum

Upgraded Windows 7 Pro to Windows 8 Pro.   Windows Home Server 2011 connector was installed and working prior to upgrade.  Backups complete without an error indication but attempting to restore files using the Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard results in following messages displayed after choosing a backup to restore from (dies when the opening the volume operation gets to 4%):

The restore process did not succeed

This driver has been blocked from loading

 

I can successfully open the Windows 8's backup volume on a different Windows 7 machine from the Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard.

 

I found a thread (http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/is/whs2011/thread/1271f38b-3831-4e42-a376-85bd975ca8e0) talking about a driver filter altitude conflict between the windows home server restore driver and Rapport but I don't have Rapport installed and did not find duplicates from fltmc:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>fltmc

Filter Name                     Num Instances    Altitude    Frame
------------------------------  -------------  ------------  -----
SiFilter                                        429998.99   <Legacy>
WdFilter                                7       328010         0
luafv                                   1       135000         0
npsvctrig                               1        46000         0
FileInfo                                7        45000         0

I have not uninstalled/re-installed the Windows Home Server 2011 connector software yet because I have not found out whether that will cause loss of my previous backups (including Windows 7) that I do not want to lose at this point.

 

TIA for any help resolving this,

 

TimG

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My Book Essential 3TB on Windows Server 2008 R2 Disk Error 11

November 1, 2012, 1:43 pm
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Hey all,

We are running Windows Server 2008 R2, using Windows Server Backup for one of our nightly backup solutions. Recently we installed a WD 3TB Essentials HDD, and after getting the drive acknowledged by the server and setting up backups, things are working for us up to a point.

Backups are completing nightly successfully, and trying to access the disk never gives us problems. However, we receive System Event Log Error 11 - Disk errors for that drive. The errors happen whenever we logon to the server, unless we have already recently logged on.

I have already checked and disabled the USB Selective Suspend power setting, but the errors persist.
We cannot detect any actual problems happening on the server, and the only clue (which of course may be a red herring) is the correlation between user logon and the event.

Can anyone provide me with advice or suggestions?

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