Manage shared folder - server operators group
I have Windows server 2012 with Active directory and I need to allow some non-administrator user to mange shared folder in the server (give access to user).I use MMC in there PC to do that but the...
View ArticleDFSR only working in one way with error 1723
Hello i have 2 FILEservers which i set up with 10 Replication Groups:Server A: Windows Server 2012Server B: Windows Server 2003All of a sudden the replication stopped working with id 5014 errror 1723...
View ArticleWindows Serch is inconsistent
We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server with the File Services role and the Windows Search service installed. We do not have the Indexing service installed. There is a piece of software that...
View Article2008R2/2012 File server limits
Hi all,I need to create e new Windows 2008R2/2012 File Server for my company (2500 users).I have a new Server with 2 CPU and 64 GB of RAM (3 Luns on an HP EVA FC SAN). I would like to know if I'm OK...
View ArticleDisks getting same UniqueId
I am trying to create disk in Azure - US-East region and keep getting the same SCSI Unique Id for all my disks. Following is Get-Disk results and you can see that two of the virtual disks have the same...
View ArticleiSCSI targets left behind by vss provider?
Hello all,I have a Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster running a number of virtual machines. Storage for the cluster is provided by a Windows Storage Server 2012 instance and mapped to the nodes via...
View Article2012 Deduplicated volumes - hydrate only specific file types
I have a file server with roughly 4 TB of data. We have found that turning on 2012 Dedupe feature is causing corruption with Access databases. Databases worked fine for a week or better before we...
View ArticleSpacing in username creating issues in DFS
In our network, we have several users that still have a space in their login name. has this ever been known to cause issues in a single DFS server for files to randomly disappear?
View ArticleSMB1/2 transfering extremely slow for small files. Sends file 6 times.
Having an issue with transferring small files using SMB1 or SMB2. 100MBs will transfer faster than 100 files totaling 10kb.Doing a packet capture on the source computer will show a file being sent to...
View ArticleDFS ABE on Existing File Server
I have a couple questions about DFS.We currently have a file server that we need to setup Access Based Enumeration on to hide folders the user does not have access to. The server is 2008 R2 in a...
View Articleuser’s data replication from one file server to remote another file
Dear All,We want solution for server by windows system, what can I do it? Anybody help me. Right now we want to implement storage solution for DC and DR sites. Not full DR solution. Only DR site for...
View ArticleStorage solution with NAS backend?
Hello,I want to share folders (CIFS/SMB) to multiple users from windows server (2012) box. They will work as a file storage for users. But I want to use NAS box (exporting cifs/nfs) as backend...
View ArticleDoes Power Data Recovery rescue every kind of file format or just some?
Does Power Data Recovery rescue every kind of file format or just some?Power Data Recovery can recover all files, but the files may not have been overwritten.
View Articlethe dependency issue between file server and login
Hi Last week when our file server down , many users complainthat during logging and enter username & password the windows only seems trying to loading without any progresswe have many GPOs. that...
View Articleissues with rights on a specific file
Hi,Given this details: a folder called \\netshare\Temp where a user doesn't have any rights, I put a file called test.txt and give full rights on this file, I instructed the user to access it by...
View ArticleCan I access EFS share on another domain?
This is really a two part question. The scenario is that I have two domain in my environment, domain1 and domain2. On domain1, I have full control of the domain and on domain2 I have no control or...
View ArticleAccess-based enumeration preventing running of executable files
Problem is occurring on a w2k8r2 server. We are having problems with any shares that have ABE enabled - executables in those shares will fail to run with the error "the specified path does not...
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...
View ArticleMoving File Server
Good Evening,I need to upgrade one of our file servers as it is running Server 2003. However I understand that as the current server is on 32 bit I can't just upgrade it to Server 2012 or Server 2012...
View ArticleDuplicate entries showing up in "Manage Open Files"
We are seeing an odd phenomenon with file sharing on our Windows Server platform. I'm posting here because I haven't seen anything quite like this in my Google searches.Off and on, when a user will try...
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