DFS replication service failing on cluster
Hello,We recently had a file server cluster set up with DFS replication. However recently the replication has failed. We decided to rebuild the replication group and use the cluster as the primary...
View ArticleMulti Site Domain File Server Design
HI All, How do i design Multi Site File Server and giving access to all the users to edit/update files? Due to File Locking Limitation DFS will not going to work. Also Brachcache not working due to...
View ArticleMissing orphaned DFS Namespace server
I have a failed namespace server that is not listed in AD and not found in ADSI but is showing in DFS management as a DFS namespace server. I cannot delete it and get the warning that the namespace...
View ArticleError 0x80042306: The shadow copy provider had an error.
I am unable to create volume shadow copy. I get the error Error 0x80042306: The shadow copy provider had an error. and event Applicaiton log Event Type: Error Event Source: VSS Event Category: None...
View ArticleWin2008 R2 Storage Server-SIS need the groveler service restarted when...
Hi guys,Hoping this is the right place. We are running 2008r2 Storage Server on a (2)node cluster. It sounds in the past, that when the cluster fails over, that we need to restart the SIS service....
View ArticleDPM 2012: Insufficient disk space with 3 and 4 TB disks
When using a 2 TB disk as storage pool in DPM 2012 everything works as expected: currently I have 3 servers added for Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) and System State with 300 GB each BMR and 2 times 10 GB...
View ArticleHome Server drive repair
I have had to use the repair tool on my drive on my WHS system several times. So I bought a new one, now what I would like to do is replace the old drive with the new one. Is there a way of...
View ArticleDfsrdiag backlog not showing (first) files
Hi, I've an issue with DFSRDIAG Backlog command. It completes successfully but it doesn't show any of the files not synched between two DFSR members. Here is the output:Member <d1wnas25825>...
View ArticleGroup nested membership and user rights
Hi, I have main shared folder "Folder1". Under that is sub-folder Folder2. Under that is sub-folder Folder3. So, folder structure is like following: Folder1 - Folder2 - Folder3. One of my domain user...
View ArticleHow do I search for files that specifically contain underscores?
So, we're using Revit at our office, and it puts a bunch of unnecessary *_backup and *_temp folders on our network. Sometimes the * ends with whitespace, and sometimes it doesn't, so we end up with...
View ArticleNFS Service dsctrs.dll missing (Server 2012)
Every 10 minutes I get two error events in my Application log:Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL NfsServer. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error...
View Articleprompt for credentials
I have a 2008 r2 domain and setup a 2012 file server. I have shares that are setup with AD local admin account only access. I use this share for tools needed to trouble shoot problems on AD pc's. If I...
View ArticleWindows Storage Server 2012 Quotas
For NFS or SMB shares in Windows Storage Server 2012, if I apply hard or soft quotas to the shares, from the client side after mounting the shares I am seeing total size of the mount point as the...
View ArticleCopy/Move problem with subdirectory on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard mapped...
Attempting to move or copy files from Windows 7 client to a subdirectory on a mapped drive that resides on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server. Right click and choose Move or Copy and nothing happens....
View ArticleMigrate the file server from 2008 to 2012 with data permission
Hi,I have to upgrade the data/file server in terms of software and as well as hardware and I would like to keep the permission on the files/folders.Any tips on it please. Currently, I have HP Pro...
View Articlerestricting a sub folder inside the folder to a couple of users
Hi guys. I have a departmental share that I need to restrict access to a couple of users. I have created a group on Active Directory. And on the file server I removed the inheritance and given access...
View ArticleIs is possible to use AQS in Windows Search to find filenames that end with a...
I'm looking for files of the form *.####.some extension. Right now, I'm using the search string *.0???.* AND System.FileExtension:="some extension", but have to look through the results to make sure...
View ArticleDFS Link Moved - "The file cannot be accessed by the system"
I removed a DFS Link from another server, then moved the content to the DFS Root share (with the same folder name that was originally linked).Now when I attempt to access that folder from another...
View ArticleWitness Client failed to register with Witness Server error
Hi,I have a 2 node Cluster with Windows Server 2012 and I've configured a Cluster Role with a File Server Resource. In this file server resource I've configured 3 shares with "Continuous...
View ArticleUse CIFS protocol in c#.NET code to download the files from SFS server
Current scenario : We are using Jelovic.FtpLib.dll in .NET project to download the files using FTP from Solaris server to WinXP client machineNew scenario: How to download files (without using FTP and...
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