Is there a way to remove obsolete devices from the list of devices that show up for a user (from the server side, not the client)? For example if a user gets a new device and the old on is re-purposed then the the old machine is still listed when you
examine the users Work Folder status. Also if a machine is lost or stolen a similar scenario would exist.
Thanks
Alan
I got a single machine on which I experience issues when I try to access a file share. Only outbound SMB connections are affected. Building up the initial connection to the fileshare takes a long time (often more than 5 minutes). Once connected, there is no issue. This issue does not always exists.
Hello, lads!
I have two servers with DFS replication. The replication works just fine. But the problem is .. when I shutdown the primary server, when I type the namespace it is unreachable. If I write the server name (the one that is powered on) I can see the files because, as I said, the replication is OK. What I want to achieve is: if SERVER1 is down, when I type the namespace to access SERVER2 which we will consider that is up and working.
Any ideas :\
Hi,
I have 2 DCs on 2 distinct sites that can speak to each other - no port filter
I have 1 RODCs on each site. They can speak to each other - no port filter
I have 1 Application servers in a DMZ on each sites. They can speak to each other - no port filter
Each DC and RODC have FFA access to the local DMZ
Each DC and RODC do not have access to the remote site DMZ
Each application server can talk to the local DC hosting the namespace via the following ports:
* udp&tcp 137, udp 138, tcp 139, udp&tcp 389, tcp 135, udp&tcp 445, tcp and udp 49152 to 65535
(Which are the ones in the documentation as long as I got the right one)
Each application server authenticate against a local RODC in a shared DMZ. (As RODC don't seem to be able to host namespaces I had to open the DFS ports to the internal DC :( at least for now)
Question:
* The Application servers can't browse DFS Namespaces - How do I go about debugging what is missing, especially since the application servers authenticate against the RODCs but the namespaces are on the DC.
* Is there a way to configure the replication without allowing the DCs to access the remote DMZ ?
I honestly did not think this kind of setup would be so un-common :) Or I might have gone about it the wrong way
Thanks for any insight you can provide
Edit: I did a network capture and the 2 servers talk, but not sure how to find where / what fails. The error I get is: delegation information for the namespace cannot be queried the specified domain...
To get that error, I need to select the namespace server, then the namespace and this happens when I try to browse the namespace server and see the folders.
I have a Windows 2012 Storage Server that has been running well for almost 2 years now. It runs iSCSI Target service, providing block storage to about 8 servers via vhds. Last week a couple of the servers (2012 & 2012 R2) connected to it suddenly came down with Bad_Pool_Caller BSOD. After much troubleshooting I discovered that the servers would only boot up fine it I disabled the VHD disks connection provisioned via iSCSI on the Windows Storage server for each of them. If while booting up they make a connection with the iSCSI target's vhd disk they crash instantly. The only 2 servers that do not have the issue with their storage are Hyper-V 2012 R2 servers (free version)
I suspected that some Windows update may be responsible but cant seem to isolate it as all the servers recently updated. ow I have deleted the iSCSI targets and recreated them. Also deleted and recreated the vhd disks but this only works so far as the vhd is still in block format. One I try to create a volume on it from the initiating system, the system crashes with the same BSOD.
I have checked event log but nothing useful other than the logging of the BSOD itself.
Any one with ideas please.
BPK
We have 2 servers a same site DFRS server configuration.
Server A - Server B
We ideally have to all users referred to Server A, and when Server A is unvailable refer to Server B.
We have looked at this document -> Set Target Priority to Override Referral Ordering and from our understanding
If we set Server A to be First among all targets and server B to beLast among all targets this should work.
However when we try to open a document up on the namespace to can go to server A or Server B are we missing something?
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Hi
I am facing a weird issue in Windows 2008 R2 enterprise server.Users are not able to access any existing shares in it.
Actions taken/Investigation done:
1.Restarted the server, but no effect
2.Checked with the user to access through \\servername\sharename instead of DFS link ..... no effect
3.We , server administrators being able to access the shares without any problem in either way
N.B: Created a new share and asked the local IT support to check, he is being able to access the new shares but not the old shares
Needed urgent help to restore the shares immediately as it may trigger major incident
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks & Regards S.Swaminathan Live & let others live!!!
This is a 2012 R2 Server being used as a terminal server
I'm having an issue where there is no "SecurityCenter" namespace in my WMI.
When I try to access it from wbemtest I get the 0x8004100e error for Invalid namespace
When I look under wmimgmt->Properties -> Security and expand Root there is no SecurityCenter
SFC didn't turn up anything
/salvage repository and /verifyrepository are both saying the repository is consistent.
any ideas why it is not there or how I can get this added?
Hello, I have Windows Server 2012 R2 with DFS role installed. I am using iscsi target connected as drive R:\ as source for replication, and another server as destination.
When I start DFS replication, it stops with this error: "The DFS Replication service failed to replicate the replicated folder at local path R:\WEB\CAT because the local path is not the fully qualified path name of an existing, accessible local folder."
The problem is probably in iscsi drive (when the source is another disk, replication works), but I dont know how to solve it - iscsi drive looks normal. I had the same configuration on windows server 2008 R2, and everything worked.
I tried to recreate replication group several times.
Any suggestion? Thank you.
Hi TechNet!
At my newly aquired work as a IT guy I've run into an issue with deleting local user profile data on roaming profiles. Whenever I delete a profile on a local machine (I do it the proper way through "userprofiles", of cause), the next time the user
tries to log on to the computer it creates a TEMP profile. Now I know the regedit solution to the problem (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and delete the .bak file for the user), but firstly that doesn't always work
for me, and secondly it's not a very permanent solution. In the specific issue I have in front of me right now, the reg entry for the user doesn't even exist. I've read that I might have something to do with profiles on Win7 being in folders called "USER.V2",
whereof the ".V2" part is not specified in the AD. Although it's not specified the roaming profiles work perfectly when a user logs on to a different machine, so I can't see how this could be the issue.
Are there any admins who have any ideas as to what might be causing this and how it can be solved? Would be really cool if I could fix this god-aweful problem once and for all.
Thanks in advance!
Good morning all -- have a question about extending a volume on Server 2008 R2.
The volume is an iSCSI target using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator -- the iSCSI device is a Dell MD3000i.
The volume was originally 500GB. On the MD3000i, I expanded the space from 500GB to 1TB -- this went fine without any issues. Once the space was expanded on the MD3000, I hopped on the server and saw the available unallocated space on that drive.. So, I followed the normal MS guide to extend a partition using the unallocated space -- I used the command prompt, diskpart, method instead of Disk Management GUI.
After extending the disk (which went fine without any issues), I can now see Disk Management reports the drive as 1100GB instead of the original 500GB. However, when I go to My Computer, it still only shows the disk as being 500GB. When I right clicked on the volume to check the properties, it still showed 500GB but it didn't look right -- I recall some a couple of the areas just showed 0 bytes even though the disk was working and was usable.
After rebooting the computer, the problem still persists -- I did run a 'chkdsk /R G:' so it could find/repair any errors -- this fixed the 0 byte errors I saw on the drive properties.
It should also be noted that from the MD3000, it is showing the volume as a 1100GB target instead of the original 500GB (so that looks fine).
Any reason why this additional space is not available for use?
Hi,
I have two Windows 2012R2 fileservers, one in each site (LIVE and DR). The LIVE site uses DFSR to replicate various shared folders to the DR site. Site to site link is 500Mb
Specifically there are 10 shared folders (10TB total size) where DFSR eventually seemed to give up on replicating them. In fact it seems to have moved a lot of files into the Preexisting folder on the DR server and if you look at the shares on the DR server there's almost no data in them. Data on the LIVE server is fine.
Effectively I want to re-sync these 10 folders to the DR site. I was thinking that perhaps doing all 10 at the same time was asking too much, so I'm happy to do the first folder, and then add the second etc. until all are back in sync.
I have removed the 10 folders from the DFSR replication group.
The disk drive that holds these 10 folders on the DR server still has 10TB of space used up by the DFSR Preexisting folders, even though (1) I can see the new DFSR config has successfully replicated to the DR site and (2) I've left the server overnight to see if it would clean itself up.
So ideally I want to clear down this disk drive to make space for me to perform the re-replication of the first shared folder.
From what I've read I thought I might have to call the CleanUpConflictDirectory method
But I fall at the first hurdle:
WMIC.EXE /namespace:\\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderconfig get replicatedfolderguid,replicatedfoldername
Because the replicated folder no longer exists in the DFSR config.
I think I want to delete the shared folders, delete the DFSR content and that will leave me with 10TB of free space. Then re-create the shared folders and re-enable replication (one folder at a time)
I know I can delete the shared folders, but how do I best go about clearing down the DFSR Preexisting folders?
Thanks,
Rob.
Hello Sir,
I am using Windows 8.1 x64 on Samsung Gateway Laptop. I faced a very strange problem day before yesterday. Disk spaces of all drives except :C was suddenly getting filled automatically and disk space of drive :C was getting reduced automatically. When I turn on protected files option and looked into all drives then very much unusual files were present there and all were also hidden. After that I scanned my Laptop with a free antivirus, then it showed you have trojan. And now, today, problem is bigger than this. Today, files in all drives were getting deleted whenever I turn on my Laptop. That's why I am not turning on my laptop.
Sir, please help me as soon as possible. What should I do.
Hi
I am getting a “logon failure: the target account name is incorrect” error whenever I try to browse to a share from a certain site.
For example;
Site 1, Site 2 and Site 3 all contain several servers. All servers are running Server 2k8 and there is 1 domain controller at each site
Servers at Site 1 and Site 2 have no issues seeing shares on each other's servers and Site 3 has no issues seeing and accessing shares on servers at Site 1 or 2.
The issue is that all domain computers/servers from Site 1 and Site 2 cannot access shares on any computer/server on the domain at Site 3.
If i was to browse to '\\domainpc\share1', I will get the message: “logon failure: the target account name is incorrect” but I could access it by using '\\domainpc.fqdn.com\share1'
The only exception that makes this issue more unusal is the fact that the DC at Site 3 can be browsed from anywhere with no problems.
Hoping someone can shed some light on this
Thankyou
Managers at my company (medium size) has decided to store all files from all offices on a single server utilizing SQL and a file management software. I believe the time has come to cluster two servers for redundancy. I was under the impression via clustering I could setup one server as a mirror of the other. But after some reading, I believe I am under the wrong impression. From what I read, it appears I need two servers and a SAN to actually store the data. I am having difficulty finding any articles that will educate me. Can someone give me a brief description of how this works or a hyperlink to a good article? Thank you.
Removed a replicated folder in DFS management console, waited for AD replication, ran Update-DfsrConf...fromAd, waited some more, confirmed the folder in question no longer showed up in the DFSR config on all members, restarted the DFSR service, waited several hours more. The DfsrRo filter driver is still blocking Write I/O on the folder at the former Read-Only member. Tested by temporarily unloading the driver to ensure that it is, indeed, the driver that's blocking the I/O and not some other permissions.
Any ideas on how to get the filter driver to refresh its configuration?
Thanks!
We've been successfully using deduplication on several file servers since the introduction of server 2012.
I have a major problem (for me). I'm having trouble accurately determining how much space someone is using on these directory structures. For years I have used a program called Windirstat to dig in and show me where space is wasted. This tool gets confused by dedupe, i found doing some research that it's because it doesn't have access to the hidden folders.
I found a psexec command to run this program as System so it can see everything, but all that does is let it inside the dedupe directory to get that folder size.
Normally on a file system, I would use Windirstat to determine who is wasting space, maybe someone dumped 400GB of data in a share folder, and either remove it or work with them to remove it.
Now I have no way of seeing this wasted space. Even if I do remove files, I don't know what affect that will have on the overall deduplication store, because ultimately that's where most of the space is used on this volume.
I now have a branch office server that is 93% full. This server has no room for more drives. While I'm working on procurement of a replacement server, i would like to dig in and see what pressure i can take off this system so it doesn't fill up, but I find myself helpless.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Server 2012 R2 core with a Rackables SE3016 attached to host via SAS cable. I used remote server manager to configure storage pools for this JBoD device. I noticed a high-pitched sound coming from the JBoD devices so i fired up server manager and see the virtual disk is degraded. I found the drive that was defunct, removed it and installed another drive of equal size. Came back to server manager and added the disk to the storage pool in question. Under the physical disks section, i see the drive has a yellow triangle next to it, i right click the drive and select remove and it never removes.
I don't get an error when clicking remove. Diskpart on the host OS does NOT list the drive or drives:
How do i delete this physical drive and bring this virtual disk back online?