Disconnected mapped drive on Windows 2003 Server
Hi thereI am running Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with SP2, 32bit. It is a terminal server. There is a mapped drive which will show as "disconnected network drive". If you double click...
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ok so i have two file servers that have DFS enabled. I have one set of shared folders on noe server and a different set on another. On my one file server which is Server 2008 storage server my...
View ArticleServer 2008 - Disk management Error - Volsnap.sys Error (Code 39)
Server 2008 - Disk management Error - Volsnap.sys Error (Code 39)Having problems with server 2008, if I attach a usb drive it says “needs to be formatted” but the drive works fine on other machines,...
View ArticleSOLVED - DFS backlog is stuck one direction
I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2 servers running DFS-R to synchronize a directory between the two of them. A couple days ago I realized that replication was only happening in one direction - and...
View ArticleiSCSI install of Windows 2008 R2 on a diskless Dell M620 Server
Hello all,I am trying to Install Win2k8 R2 to an iSCSI disk on a Dell M620 blade that does not have a local physical disk.A little about our environment: We have an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. The M620...
View Articlesystemstate backup is failing due to VSS issues as seen in TSM error logs
OS Server 2003 Std Edition Version SP2 System/Processor x86 familyPart 1) EventViewer is full of Event 333 which excatly matches description & solution given...
View ArticleWindows 2008 r2 blank search results
HiI have a share that is being indexed. It is in the list of indexes drives. I gave A: as the drive letter. The indexer says is has indexed 180,000 files and I have rebuilt the index, but I still get...
View ArticleiSCSI disk / Shared folder
Hello,I have a Windows 2003 Server on which I plugged an iSCSI disk using Microsoft iSCSI Initiator.Right now, everything is fine but I want this disk to be shared to the other computers in our network...
View ArticleActive directory role and file sharing
Hello, I am experiencing for some time now "slow" file transfer from my Windows 2k8 server to Vista SP1 clients. Recently, I did some more tests and was finely able to point out the cause; the AD role...
View ArticleAuditing on file server
HiI want to do auditing on file server win 2008 r2. I want to find logs for file/folder creation,deletion,create share,delete share...etc.Please suggest how to achieve this.thanks
View ArticleWindows 2012 Deduplication - Access share from Windows XP / 7
Hi, We're currently working through a support ticket with MS regarding an issue with Windows 2012 deduplication and accessing that deduplicated data via a SMB Share from Windows 7 and Windows XP...
View ArticleProblem with Offline Sync. Do redirected %username% folders have to be in...
Hello Everyone,I am currently testing "Redirected Folders" with "Offline" support in a test environment before switching on for production.I would like to ask is there a problem using a path similar to...
View ArticleW2K8 R2 SP1: Can not access NAS due to error 0x80070035
Hi,very strange problem here. We aren't able to connect to several NAS on the same subnet from our virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 machines which are running on Hyper-V 2008 R2 Cluster. We always...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 Indexing and Adding Libraries to Windows 7.
I’m having trouble adding network folders to windows 7 libraries (w/o making it available offline), the error says it can’t be added b/c the location it’s not indexed but that doesn’t make any sense...
View ArticleWindows 7 clients cannot connect to shared resources hosted on a Windows...
Like the title says when win7 clients VPN they can't access shared folders on win2008, usually it says permission denied.They can access shared resources on win2003 just fine. We use a Linux firewall...
View ArticleInstalling SATA card drivers
I have a machine with Server 2008 R2 that I've recently added a SATA card to. The drivers from the disk nor from the chip's manufacturer seemed to work and the reviews said that many people were using...
View ArticleUsing Windows Server 2012 as a basic media and file server on home network.
I have Windows Server 2012 Datacenter installed on a pc on my home network. I want to use it as an always available file and media server that I can access not only on my home network, but over the...
View ArticleW2K8 R2 DFSR This member is waiting for initial replication for replicated...
Hi all,I've tried what I could find online and nothing seems to help. You can read about my setup and what has been tried so far...
View ArticleProblem with assigning file permissions on a Windows Server 2008 R2
Hello,I'm having a problem. I have a shared folder with many subfolders that the domain users group has r/w access to. I have a contractor who needs access to only two of the directories. It's been...
View ArticleWindows Storage Server 2008 DISCOVERY Error?
Few weeks ago I setup a hosting a SQL databae on my MS Storage Server.Then we move application to another location, so I manualy deleted all virtual disks, LUN's created by SQL host wizard.Now when I...
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