I've been running into all kinds of errors recently, and it looks like my C drive is out of space.

In trying to figure out why, I've found the Windows folder is eating up 38 gig of space? That can't be right?

Using Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

Thanks

Hi There,

Massive shot in the dark here but I am struggling with a pretty major issue atm.  We have a production file server that is hosted on the following:

Dell MD 3220i -> iSCSI -> Server 2008 R2 Hyper-v Cluster -> Passthrough Disk -> Server 2012 R2 File Server VM

Essentially 3 times now, roughly a month or so apart.  The file server stops accepting connections.  During this time, the server is perfectly accessible through rdp or with a simple ping.  I can browse the files on the server directly but no-one appears to be able to access the shares over SMB.  A reboot of the server fixes the issue.  

As per a KB article I removed nod antivirus from the server to rule out a conflicting filter mode driver after the second fault.  Sadly yesterday it happened again.

The only relevant errors in the servers log files are:

SMB Server Event ID 551
SMB Session Authentication Failure

Client Name: \\192.168.105.79
Client Address: 192.168.105.79:50774
User Name: HHS\H6-08$
Session ID: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Status: Insufficient server resources exist to complete the request. (0xC0000205)

Guidance:

You should expect this error when attempting to connect to shares using incorrect credentials.

This error does not always indicate a problem with authorization, but mainly authentication. It is more common with non-Windows clients.

This error can occur when using incorrect usernames and passwords with NTLM, mismatched LmCompatibility settings between client and server, duplicate Kerberos service principal names, incorrect Kerberos ticket-granting service tickets, or Guest accounts without Guest access enabled

and

SMB Server event ID 1020
File system operation has taken longer than expected.

Client Name: \\192.168.105.97
Client Address: 192.168.105.97:49571
User Name: HHS\12J.Champion
Session ID: 0x2C07B40004A5
Share Name: \\*\Subjects
File Name:
Command: 5
Duration (in milliseconds): 176784
Warning Threshold (in milliseconds): 120000

Guidance:

The underlying file system has taken too long to respond to an operation. This typically indicates a problem with the storage and not SMB.

I have checked the underlying disk/iscsi/network hyper-v cluster for any other errors or issues, but as far as I can tell everything is fine. 

Is it possible that something else is left over from the NOD antivirus installation?  

Looking for suggestions on how to troubleshoot this further.

Thanks

I've got a Server 2012 R2 file server set up and have enabled the FSRM role. I have file classification and file management tasks configured.  In my ideal world, I would run the file management tasks continuously.  The issue I'm having is that if I select the "Run continuously on new tasks" checkbox I get a notification about not having alerts or dates configured. (I have no alerts configured on the task). If I try to de-select all the scheduled dates, I get a message saying I have to select at least one date.  So I'm stuck in a "catch-22" and it's driving me crazy. 

I've done a bunch of searching and all I've come up with are examples where people ARE able to select the run continuous option so I'm obviously missing something.  I'd appreciate any thoughts anyone may have.

Cheers,

Don

Hi;

How can I find the size of a domain-based namespace object in Active Directory?

Thanks

Please VOTE as HELPFUL if the post helps you and remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

HI All,

  I got 2 Servers and each got 12 x 1.2 TB drives. This is going to be our production file server and put second server to DR location.

 1. What is the  best Storage pool size ? 2x6 drives with Raid 10  or   3 x 4 drives  with raid 10

 2. How do i replicate data to DR?

 3. What is the best way to setup failover?  DNS Alias name for file server ( CropFS.domain.com) and point to DR if any emergency 

4. What is the best folder structure?  Users and company data for 3 location users to access

As

Hi, 

 On our file server there is a delay when deleting files. This only applies to the users, if i try with Administrator every thing goes fast.

I have done some changes and check up the security settings on the share and everything looks fine. 

this have i tried:

 - Change security settings

- Done this: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2014/05/16/network-performance-problems.aspx (it did some imporvment)

- checket TCP offload, RSS yeah everything. 

so what am i missing? We have 2 file servers and every thing on the second server works rly great. i tried to compare but i didn't see any differences.  

The server has the CPU and RAM it needed(its specced to overkill:P). 

so please if any one have had the same issu please replay

best regard!

asd

Problem: Connections to fileshares(smb) on windows 2012 r2 server are suddenly not possible. This server is also a AD DS server and also GPO`s can`t be retrieved by other clients (example w2008 r2 RDS servers).
Rebooting the server will solve it. No 3rd party software on the server.
Seems no relationship with IO intensity. Events are logged outside of the normal working hours and outside of the backup window.

EventId: 30809 - SMBclient is logged on the windows 2012 r2 server.

I've been reading about Windows 2012 Server Standard and Data Center.  My question has De-Duplication replaced the compression of folders and drives?  Or are both feature now available in Windows 2012.

Thanks

Hi,

I have an issue I have been investigating around making changes to File Permissions on our file server.

So as an admin I get prompted to edit security permissions when I try and access a share which I have permissions to access.

So the share permissions are a departmental share Group which is a local Group with a Global Group nested in it and the local administrators group which as another group nested in it. I am member of that group

I have looked through the various areas on the internet which suggest tuning the local security policy to make this workhttp://clintboessen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/you-dont-currently-have-permission-to.html

UAC is also currently disabled.

Now if I access a share where I am one of the members of the nested departmental groups then I get no prompt and if I'm explicitly added as member of the local administrator group I get no prompt so I'm trying to understand what I may need to change so getting no prompt is the default behavior for an admin?

Any ideas

Hi,

I am trying to configure File Server Resource Manager to automatically classify files depending on their content.

I have created a new resource under Dynamic Access Control, which is called "Privacy Level", which is an ordered list. I have defined the following 4 values:

Personal - Value 1

Restricted - Value 2 

Confidential - Value 3

Highly Confidential - Value 4

I want all files to be classified as Personal to begin with (since its the lowest value), then the configuration should check the content for a specific text such as "salary", and if that text exists in the file, it shall classify the file as "Restricted" which should override the "personal" value. Confidential should override restricted and so on.

To achieve this I created a Classification Rule in File Server Resource Manager, gave it the directory and everything. My problem is I can not find where to define what value is given under what condition. Classification Parameters section is not allowing me to do this. As mentioned earlier, I have defined the values but I don't understand where I define something like this:

Default value = 1

If the text "Salary" exists in the document, this document is restricted, value = 2

If the text "Financial Report" exists in the document, this document is Confidential, value = 3

If the text "Highly Confidential" exists in the document, this document is Highly Confidential, value = 4.

How can I define this?

Thanks in advance,

Hi All,

When pulling the data size information for Files and folders residing in a File server share, we have added to list the owner information as well.

While seeing the report, we found file\folder's owner name showing as "Administrators", but the data is accessing by users. Administrators used to modify the permissions when required. 

Can someone help us to understand or point to an Microsoft article which will explains on how the owner information is calculate for the "Owner" column in the Windows explorer. 

Ravi Ch

I am trying to replicate a large encrypted file system (EFS) folder full of thousands of files from one Windows 2008 R2 server across a WAN to another Windows 2008 R2 server on the same domain.  I have read that DFS does not support encrypted file system, so my next best option is robocopy.  Unfortunately for some reason, the EFSRAW command, which is supposed to facilitate the copying of encrypted files, is failing me.

When I issue the following command:

robocopy F:\LocalServerAFolder \\ServerB\SharedFolder myfile.txt /EFSRAW

I receive error message:

ERROR 6000 (0x00001770) Accessing Destination Directory \\ServerB\SharedFolder\ The specified file could not be encrypted.

This occurs regardless of whether I use the /EFSRAW option, and regardless of what user account I execute it as (including domain admin and the encrypted file owner account).  Oddly, using the regular copy command works just fine, but the copy command won't suit my needs for keeping these two large folders in sync day-to-day.

When I robocopy to a local path it works.  When I robocopy from ServerB (pull) across the network, it does not work.  So it would appear that any time I try to traverse the network, it does not work.

What am I doing wrong?

Hi.

In my network, there are some Windows 2012 datacenter, some windows client and some apple client (Mac OSX).

I configured some shares on Windows 2012 used by apple clients (throughSMB protocol).

When I try to search a file, thesearchis slowandsometimes crashes.

I sawthat forsuch issuesshouldenable theAFPbutfrom windows2008 it isn'tlonger present (someonerecommendedthird-party software).

Any suggestions?

Regards

Hi

I want to remove all exist DFS Namespace servers from DFS console. See below snapshot.

I am using windwos 2012 r2 servers.

Hello everyone,

I have been having some problems with the FTPS site i created. here is brief background of it.

FTPS site created on Windows server 2012 r2 with SSL cert deployed.

everything seems to be working fine when i access my site from internet using any FTP client ( Filezilla or winscp). I can upload and download files like (.txt,.docx,.xlsx,.png) but when i try to upload a PDF this site it gives me following error:

Status:       Retrieving directory listing of "/"...

Command: PORT xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Response: 501 Server cannot accept argument.

Command: PASV

Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).

Command: LIST

Response: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection.

Response: 226-Directory has 107,247,357,952 bytes of disk space available.

Response: 226 Transfer complete.

Command: PORT xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Response: 501 Server cannot accept argument.

Command: PASV

Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (xxxxxxxxxxxxxx).

Command: STOR ------.pdf

Response: 550 Access is denied. 

Error:         Critical file transfer error

Status:       Disconnected from server

Error:         Disconnected from server: ECONNRESET - Connection reset by peer

I just don't know where the problem lies, does any one have idea for such type of issue?

Nice to see my original posts are still up.  I was hoping that in the ensuing time someone had found a solution.  At least I can now see many other posting the same problems.  :)  Thought I was losing it for a while.

We have 100% proven that the problem (in our case) is from the ISP blocking port 445 (possibly others but 445 for SURE) with the reasoning that it prevents the spread of some Internet "worms".  It also just happens to prevent people who work from home from being able to map to their network drives at work.

What I was hoping was that eventually someone would comer up with a solution for this short of having to load a server using a different OS from Windows.  The SMB protocol is the one needing port 445 as far as I can tell.  Not all ISP block port 445 and the laptops that use those ISP's  have no problem.  Unless they travel.  Then it is "hit or miss" as to whether the ISP for the Hotel they stay at blocks it.

I have run multiple tests to prove that this was in FACT the problem.  Even the particular ISP in question which is a very large national ISP company freely admits they do this supposedly to prevent the spread of an unnamed Internet Worm.  It also happens to prevent Business use of their Internet by Home Subscribers at they cannot map to their Business Servers which also need port 445 to map.

I have used WebDAV successfully to get around this but at a huge loss of speed and performance.  Cloud services all do essentially the same thing and all have pretty much the same loss of speed.

If anyone has come across a method of allowing a drive mapping to be rerouted to any other port, that is the only hope I have short of changing to an alternate OS for the Office Server and even then I cant be sure until I try if it would help.  I read somewhere about the possibility of routing through a proxy but again, the problem would still be that the requests for mapping are expected on port 445 on the server and they will not get through even to the proxy since the originating ISP is the one blocking the port from the User's system. 

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated  I have posted this question now for several years with no one yet providing a working solution.  Hope burns Eternal though :)

Hi,

I configured E-Mail notifications fort the FS Resource Manager (Quota Limitations…), as I wanted to send a Test E-Mail I got this “Failed to send the test e-mail due to the following error: Cannot send the email due to an error. Check the application event log for more information.”

Event Log:

-----

A File Server Resource Manager Service email action could not be run.

Error-specific details:

   Error: IFsrmEmailExternal::SendMail, 0x8004531c, Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Client does not have permissions to send as this sender

Event ID: 12306;

-----

After searching the web for this error I tried some thinks like give send permissions ecc.

As it turns out you need give send permissions to the computer running FSRM. You need set this send permission on the mailbox you specified in the “Default From e-mail address”. To do this, type the following command from the Exchange Management Shell:

Add-ADPermission -Identity "MailboxName" -User "DOMAIN\Computeraccount$" -ExtendedRights "Send-as"

But the command didn’t work for me

My Cms-let:

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Add-ADPermission -Identity "mymailbox@mydomain.com" -User

 "mydomain.local\administrator$" -ExtendedRights "Send-as"

Error:

Add-ADPermission : mymailbox@mydomain.com was not found. Please make sur

e you have typed it correctly.

At line:1 char:17

+ Add-ADPermission <<<<  -Identity " mymailbox@mydomain.com " -User "mydomain.l

ocal\administrator$" -ExtendedRights "Send-as"

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (0:Int32) [Add-ADPermission], Mana

   gementObjectNotFoundException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : D7BAD26F,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Recipient

   Tasks.AddADPermission

So I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine running and I've noticed it keeps losing a lot of disk space lately.  I finally ran a program that scans your HD and shows all the files and its sizes.  It showed my volume shadow information was using 85GB of my free space.  So I went into the volume shadow copies and it showed it was disabled, but that it was using 85GB of free space.  I opened command prompt and typed in vssadmin list shadow storage and it showed this:

So I went back into the volume shadow copies box and I changed the maximum size from no limit to 320MB.  Once I did that it purged all the volume shadow information and gave me back the 85GB of free space.  So my question is why was shadow copy storage actually using space and creating these files when it is disabled on the server?  Is there something else I'm missing here?

I installed a new server for one of my clients a few months back (new Windows 2012 Server). At the time, all of their local workstations were running Win 7 with no issues.

Now, one of the desktops was upgraded to Win 10 and the user intermittently gets the error:

Location not available

S:\ is unavailable. If the location is on this PC, make sure the device or drive is connected or the disc is inserted, and then try again. If the location is on a network, make sure you're connected to the network or Internet, and then try again. If the location still can't be found, if might have been moved or deleted

The other PCs in their office running Win 7 do not get this error. The user says all he has to do is click "OK" and then he can access the mapped drive, but the error keeps returning from time to time and he wants it fixed.

What could have changed in Win 10 and also what can be done to resolve the issue?