DFS vs SHARE permission / interaction
Hi, Apolgies for the somewhat long question, but I would appreciate some help please. I have been reading various Technet articles, but I am still unclear, I am somewhat (OK very!) confused about...
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Hello, Our users mapped the folder as \\server\share. Now we had moved shares folder and files from two old servers to one new server. We created DFS on the new server for shares and then point to the...
View ArticleOld shortcuts create new mapped drives after DFS installed
I have a customer who has clients that have two main mapped drives on their PC's from the Server eg - \\FileServer\Dept file and \\FileServer\Shared file Due to the Companies growth they opened a new...
View ArticleDFS Namespace behaviour
Hi, We have some strange behaviour happening on one of our DFS namespaces. We have a domain namespace which looks like this domain.com\folder Every time we try and manage the namespace it jumps to a...
View ArticleHow to Find or Search for files, folders, or contents of files, WITHOUT using...
How do I find or search by actually reading data from the file system ... without using a "search" index? - I don't want an index of possible future searches limited by options in an "Indexing Options"...
View ArticleUnable to search contents inside files in explorer on Windows 2008 R2
Hi, I have a TS server enviroment where i'm having trouble to search for contents inside documents. I have the index service running on the TS server and on the file server as vell. If i look at the...
View ArticleProblem with Replication in DFS "Empty Folders"
Hi , I created namespace with two folder target "each in different sites" then I established replication between the two folder. there are four subfolder , the replication works properly with three of...
View ArticleICACLS Syntax issues with backup / restore
I am doing some testing with Windows Server 2008 R2 with NTFS permissions. I have a d: (multiple folders and sub-folders) drive with an existing ntfs permissions. I want to make a backup of the...
View ArticleCannon IR3570 Printer problem with shared folder in server 2008 R2 standard
I have a Canon iR4570 copier, which is configured to scan to the 2003 Windows Server shared folder - that's working fine. However, I can't set it up to scan to another Shared Folder which is on...
View ArticleWhat is Maximum Spanned Partition Size in Standard 2008R2 server?
I have been browsing MS site for this information but am unable to find a difinitive answer. I have a Windows 2008R2 standard server with 4 logical disks of 80TB, I am installing archive software that...
View ArticleAccess Based Enumeration Keeps Getting Disabled
OK, I think I'm losing my mind! What would cause access-based enumeration (ABE) to become disabled? I have a number of W2k8 R2 servers with DFS Namespaces. The shares associated with each namespace...
View ArticleWhat are the possible pitfalls of adding a pair of 2008 R2 servers running...
I have a client who has an ageing 2003 Small Business Server. They have asked me to add a local fileserver as the main faile store and then replicate this information to another server (actually a...
View ArticleHow to distribute ISNS server settings to clients (DHCP, GPO)
Have a bunch of W7 clients using MS iSCSI Target on W2008 R2 server for backup purposes. There is an ISNS server running at the same machine. The clients seem to drop the ISNS initiator registration...
View ArticleRAID: Can I have resiliency on the system drive (contains boot partition)
Hi there, I have built a small Windows Server containing 3X 500GB Hard Drives for application development. At the moment only one disk is being used. What I was hoping to do is a RAID5 with all three...
View ArticleRestoring a spanned volume with a copy of a disk or without initializing
I've had a spanned volume created out of two hardware RAID arrays, and one of the arrays has failed, meaning that the spanned disk has failed. The RAID array may or may not have the original data still...
View Articlekill sessions in file server
hello, I have problems when i have to modify the names of some folders in my File Server. The problem is solved when i close sessions in "Share and Storage Management" How can i kill sessions that has...
View ArticleStorage spaces, replace HDD or move data between physical disks, not possible?
I am sorry if this has been answered before, but there seems to be difficult to find enough information about Storage Spaces. I have 5 x 2 TB of data disks in my server, which are all joined in a...
View ArticleShadow Copy Broken, will not show previous versions
I'm having a strange issue with Shadow Copy on a 2008 (r1) x64 server. my server has 4 drives C: E: M: Z: I want to setup up shadow copies for the E:\ and use z:\ to store the shadow copies. I set...
View ArticleDFS share disappear
I have 2003 DC holds the FSMO and 2008 R2 as additional DC, one fileserver holds the DFS root. Recently users reported that the DFS network share disappeared intermittently, I google it and no hints I...
View ArticleNo File lock even if user has file open
We have few Vista and Win 7 desktops on our environment. Server is Win Srv 2008 r2 Std with Active Directory, Remote Desktop and File Services roles installed. When user "A" opens a excel file for...
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