DFS replication - backlog increasing - incoherence beetween bandwidth use &...
Hello,we have a 3 servers (physical) DFS setup over VPN connections (dedicated to server-to-server connection)Most of the changes are made on 1 server (A) and are replicated to the 2 others (B &...
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Hi, Please see the details of the issue I have. Back ground: Client: Dell Latitude E7440 – Windows 8 Enterprise File Servers: Windows Server 2012 clustered Active Directory domain functional level:...
View ArticleDisk usage
Hi guys,I got a strange issue on a server. The C drive is for the system. The D drive contain the file for the file server (13Gb) and is a volume of 600Gb C and D are two disks RAID mirroring. The E...
View ArticleNew files and folders on a Linux client mounting a Windows 2012 Server for...
Problem statementWhen I mount a Windows NFS service file share using UUUA and set the Owner and Group, and set the SetGID bit on the parent folder in a hierarchy. New Files and folders inside and...
View ArticleAccess denied trying to capture MPIO config
I am using 3PAR storage with MS DSM/MPIO and I cannot capture configuration on any of my servers (WS2K8 and WS2K8 R2), I get access denied. A pop up with "Failed to pobe MPIO storage configuration,...
View ArticleDetermine Shares on servers..
Hi,our customer would know, where on windows servers ( Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 & Server 2012 R2 ) are shares and who has permission on it .. it´s possible to determine it ? via...
View ArticleDFS replication Cause missing huge amount of files on server 2012, how to...
I have two files servers with the name File-1 and File-bak in one domain. I installed DFS Replication role on both servers and created a replication group for collection. File-1 is the source server,...
View ArticleDFS replication is OK, but it is changing the times on files
I have two 2008R2 servers that use DFS to replicate data over a wireless link (150MB/s).They seem to replicate really well, except that some of the files seem to have different times, that are off...
View ArticleFolder not visible
I have a windows 2008 r2 server that I am using as a file server. It has every user's home directory on it. I have one folder that I can not see. If I try to copy over the folder, I get the folder...
View ArticleiSCSI target server role on only one node of a cluster - can't add targets
I have a Windows 2012 eight node cluster. One of the nodes has 20TB of direct-attached storage (not my idea). All the rest have only local system drives and use a dedicated shared storage array (a...
View ArticleDetermining Best Permissions for Windows Server Files
Hello, Currently our server has no permissions, and everyone can access all files. I want to set the files so that only three employees can see them. I saw a pre-made group called "Everyone" and...
View ArticleTrouble recovering a failing RAID-5 disk array
Hi,I am new to this forum, but I have been reading a lot of the posts on here in an attempt to fix a problem I have.I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 RAID-5 array. It is made up of 5 2TB disks.Recently...
View ArticleShared Folder Access Issue
We have multiple sites in Active Directory and multiple AD controllers in each site. We have two file servers, one in each site. We are having access issues with one user who is using computers in...
View ArticleExcluding a Folder From DFS Replication
I would like to exclude a folder from DFS Replication. The folder's name contains spaces. Can I type the folder name with the spaces in the Subfolder filter box? Thanks.
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 File Server Stops Responding to SMB Connections
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...
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Storage Pool - Can't remove disk and Virtual Disk is in degraded.
I've tried everything to fix this but I can't seem to find a way. The disks are included below. The problem is Physicaldisk0 is failing and it will not remove from the Storage Pool. If I unplug the...
View ArticleServer 2012 - Dedup Disk Maintenance
Hi,When looking at the three maintenance tasks (schedtasks) that are employed to maintain the dedup volumes, is there an order by which they should run? For example, should garbage collection always...
View ArticleDedup showing 0% savings
Hi Everyone,I enabled dedup on a backup drives used for SQL server backups and left it a couple of days. When I check the folder properties it has the following proeprties:Size: 418GBSize on Disk :...
View ArticleHow do I tell if we have DFS on our network
Hi, I have inherited a network and have heard rumors that we have DFS installed somewhere on it. I am having difficulty finding any server where this is installed. Does anyone know of a good and quick...
View ArticleAD Sites / DFS issues
We've set up AD Sites and DFS in our 2003/2008 mixed environment and the results seem incredibly sporadic. SiteA has two subnets: 192.168.1.0/24 172.22.0.0/22 SiteB has one subnet: 172.23.0.0/22 The...
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