Server 2012 R2 slow read speed on network drive
I recently upgraded my server to server 2012 r2 from windows 7 and have been experiencing an issue that I can't seem to solve. I have a shared network drive on the server that I use to copy files...
View ArticleDFS-r Seeming to Select Incorrect Primary Member
Hello,So I'm having a strange issue here. I'm trying to set up a replication group between two sites (Denver and LA) with little success. I've tried setting up a test replication group between these...
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 ArticleVolumes disappeared from DFS replication
Hi all,Recently I set up DFS replication on Windows 2012 Std Server. Few days ago I tried to connect the 3rd server to this replication and found out that all volumes except C:\ drive are disappeared...
View ArticleDFS Issues on a paticular volume on a individual server
We have 4 servers, we wanted to setup DFS between our two file shares and ran into problems, in order to troubleshoot this i ended up making sure DFS was working on the other servers, it does, DFS...
View ArticleRoaming profiles on Linux shares
Hi,Help me please to understand rights assignment to non-Windows shares in Windows domain.Let me explain the situation.1. We want to deploy Roaming profiles with Folder redirection.2. We bought two...
View ArticleDFS - Cannot Create Namespace - RPC Server Is Unavailable windows 2008R2
Hi guys, I am back again with another questionI am trying to create a domain based namespace, enabled Windows 2008 mode and get the following error...\\Miracle-Adventure.com\dfs. The namespace cannot...
View ArticleDeleting offline folder cache
Hello All,I need expert advice on the following; We need to delete the offline folder cache on the windows 7 clients for over a 100+ users in our environment.Let me describe the scenario -- All the...
View ArticleConnecting to Virtual Disk Service
Hello Community,I have a problem with my Virtual Disk Service. If i start Diskmanagment you can only see:Connecting to virtual Disk Service" To use diskpart is also not possible :(No errorlogs to...
View ArticleNamespaces in DFS are not in redundancy system
Hello,here is my scenario. I have 3 servers all connected to a namespace in a DFS environment.Folder1 is replicated on each of these servers.My shortcut is pointing to the namespace share.If I shutdown...
View ArticleFiles and/or folders not showing when drive accessed via UNC path (or mapped...
We have some users who are mobile and domain authentication across site-to-site VPN is not always successful. For this reason, I give UNC paths to for a shortcut or "Network Location" and otherwise...
View ArticleNetwork Shared files occasionally say they are locked by another program
Hello,On a Server 2012 Essentials with Windows 7 clients, files on network shares occasionally report that they are locked by another program.This usually happens when a user closes a file and tries to...
View Articlenetwork shared folders
hi...I made DC on windows 2008 r2 and I created shared folders on the DC itself , now I can access the shared folders and view them from other pc's joined to the domain but I can not view them from...
View ArticleIf you have done DFR-R with 2008 R2 AND 2012 R2.........
If you have done DFR-R with 2008 R2 AND 2012 R2, did you upgrade the schema to 2012 level?Did you experience any issues/problems with the replication that you attributed to the mixed OS environment,...
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DFSdiag error - tracking down culprit
I am having difficulty tracking down the following error I receive with dfsdiag.DFS seems to be working fine despite the errors above (the paths point to my two folder targets). Also, the namespace is...
View ArticleUndoing Spanned volume?
I am not sure if I am asking the correct question. Please forgive me if I am asking this in the wrong place.I have Windows Server 2012. For purposes of this, I have 3 disks. The primary partition (Disk...
View ArticleFSRM report error
Hi,I have couple of Windows Server 2012 R2 boxes and all have same issue: Cannot generate any report in FSRM, any idea welcome. Tried even on system drive (single folder) to generate report same...
View ArticleEMC NAS - Win 2008R2 and 2012R2
Hi,I am using an EMC Isilon (NAS - SMB 2.1) with both OS Windows 2008R2 and 2012R2.When a file is being written to a shared drive from 2008R2 and someone needs to read it, 2008R2 hangs for ~60 seconds...
View ArticleConfigured File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) for email notification to...
Hi All,I configured File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) for email notification. I receive the error message: "Failed to send the test e-mail due to the following error: The SMTP server requires a...
View ArticleNFS Client - Dude, where is my drive !!
HiContext Server 2012I was in theory able to create a NFS client mount to a NAS drive (IOMega drive), e.g.C:\Windows\system32>mount -o sec=sys 10.1.2.3:/nfs/public K: K: is now successfully...
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