BIG DFS Namespace and Replication problems
I have 2 files servers with Win2012 installed, I have DFS activated on both machines.When I created the namespaces originally lets call them \\ad.domain.com\share\ with folder called "home" in the name...
View ArticleWhy "Deny Delete" permission is not work?
Dear Support,I'm meeting an issue now.when I created a shared folder, i want to grant the permission to specified users/groups which can make them create/delete/modify its child files/folders, but do...
View ArticleNFS Sharing Tab is not found..NFS sharing provisioning fails with...
Hi All, Operating System: Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1H/w: VMware virtual machine vmx 09Installed: File server role with "Services for network file system"Server for NFS and Client for NFS...
View ArticleFile Server slow to respond
I had an issue with my file server locking up or being slow to load for users. I had to reboot that server, but obviously that's something I would like to avoid for the future. We had an issue where I...
View ArticleEncryption in windows file server
I have a client requirement to encrypt the file and folders inside a sharedfolderI selected the folder and from the properties, enabled a the encryption check mark and saved the generated certificate...
View Articleusers unable to save on their shared homefolders
Hi I've got users who are having the ff error when saving to their shared home folders "You don't have permission to save on this location contact the administrator to obtain permission" they have been...
View ArticleFailover cluster server
We have a 2 node cluster both on 2012, they were both working fine until a restart where one of servers started becoming unresponsive, when connected remotely or directly on the server you could use...
View ArticleCan you export quotas from a Server 2003 server and import them into Server...
Is there a way to backup the quotas set on users from an old Server 2003 machine's drive, then import them into a Server 2012 drive somehow?
View ArticleDFS - insane amount of backlog files (how are all of these being changed?)
2008R2 serversWe have about 35 users that are creating an insane amount of DFS backlog files. We've been steadily bumping up the staging area to 8, 10, then 20GB but it doesn't help. We've seen...
View ArticleCopy 40000 files, then take 100 mins on windows 2008 FTP server?
Dear Expert,Recently we enable the FTP on our file server, we tried to copy 7000 XML files around 6M size, it spent me around 2 minutes to copy file from server to local, took around3mins to copy the...
View ArticleMoving user files from one server to another.
Hi everyoneI would need your help to help me migrate the user files of around 300 persons to a new server.Is there a tool that could help me doing that?Here is the situation:I have an old 2003 server...
View ArticleDeploy ODBC to clients remotely
In Server 2008 R2 is there any way to remotely deploy pre-configured ODBC to client machines?Unsure if it's something via GP or scripting and can't find much online about this.Has anyone done it before...
View ArticleFile Server Failover Cluster without shared disks
i have two servers that i wish to cluster as my Hyper V hosts and also two file servers each with 10 4TB SATA disks, all i have read about implementing high availability at the storage level involves...
View ArticleMigrating to WorkFolders
Hii configured workfolders in our env and that works just fine.How do I migrate existing user files into their workfolders.Would Robocopy work?
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Concurrent File Transfer Issue
I have a scenario and unfortunately, any search i have attempted come up with a bunch of nonsense about slow transfer speeds, period.Here is my scenario, when any file is transferred over SMB it works...
View ArticleAccess Denied for 1 User, but Not Another
I just don't understand what could possibly be causing this issue.I have two users, one for myself and another for the on-site administrator of a server. This server's purpose is to hold a large amount...
View ArticleDFS Replication
I have two DFS servers and one folder(FolderA) is replicated two way.DFS-SRV1 & DFS-SRV2 (Folder1 is replicated two ways)Now I need a folder called "Folder2" and that need to created in DFS-SRV2....
View ArticleI want to use icacls to deny a user's 'delete' permission on some folder
when I use icacls D:\test /deny user:D the user can not access the folder, and the user do not have any permissions. I want to only deny the "delete" permission on this folder. what should I do ?
View ArticleDFS root browsable in \\domain\ other DFS roots require FQDN i.e....
Using "contoso" as a substitute for the real name.....I managed to set up a DFS root of the form \\contoso\users that is showing up like any share would in windows explorer when I browse\\contoso\ and...
View ArticleRunning Server 2012 R2 DFS services in a Server 2008 R2 Domain
I've read a couple of interoperability articles regarding DFS and Server 2012 R2 / Server 2008 R2 but am having a difficult time finding some details.I am specifically trying to determine any...
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