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Win2008 Backup Failure: Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup volumes with following error code '2155348129'

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I recently performed a clean install of Win2008 x32 and have been trying for several days to get the Windows Backup program to work on my system drive C: (hardware RAID 5 - Intel Embedded Server RAID II on S5000PSLSAS with 3- 146GB 15K drives. I updated all drivers/bios from Intel before the install).

I have a removable SATA drive (500GB) which the Windows Backup program cleared for backups. I later assigned drive X: so I could see what was being placed on the drive (e.g. X:\WindowsImageBackup\APICELLA\Backup 2008-08-18 015309).

These are the things that do work using the Backup Once Option:

1) Backing up 100GB from an IDE Drive B: - no errors. Data appears on X:

2) Backup up 100GB separate RAID Array D: (I have two separate RAID arrays on this machine) - no errors. Data appears on X:

3) Problem: Everytime I chose to backup C: I get this error message: Backup started at '8/18/2008 1:55:08 AM' failed as Volume Shadow copy operation failed for backup volumes with following error code '2155348129'. Please rerun backup once issue is resolved.

Event Viewer:
- System
  - Provider
   [ Name]  Microsoft-Windows-Backup
   [ Guid]  {1db28f2e-8f80-4027-8c5a-a11f7f10f62d}
   EventID 521
   Version 0
   Level 2
   Task 0
   Opcode 0
   Keywords 0x8000000000000000
  - TimeCreated
   [ SystemTime]  2008-08-18T01:55:12.764Z
   EventRecordID 962
   Correlation
  - Execution
   [ ProcessID]  3032
   [ ThreadID]  3852
   Channel Application
   Computer APICELLA
  - Security
   [ UserID]  S-1-5-18

- EventData 
  BackupTime 2008-08-18T01:55:08.427Z
  ErrorCode 2155348129
  ErrorMessage %%2155348129

I have turned on Shadow Copying all both drives C: and X:.

Any suggestions?

- Pete


Cant see Network locations after add domain to new computer

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My Server Windows Server 2012 have some folder share for everyone.

I was thinking that after adding a computer to the domain is suppose to show the folder in the new computer, cant see any of the share folder on network location. I will need to map this folders one at time?

The new computer is using Windows 7 Professional 64bits

Thanks,

Symbolic links and Client for NFS

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I am trying to integrate a Solaris NIS and AD environment. 
I've got Client for NFS and User Name Mapping installed on Server 2003 R2 and WinXP Pro, and have primary storage running from the NIS domain.  I'm able to map and connect to the NFS shares successfully, except symbolic links don't even show up, let alone work.  Is there anything special I need to do to view symbolic links?

Thanks,
Pat

SMB file transfer issue on windows 8

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Issue: When I transfer the file from UNIX OS to Windows Server 2012 (SMB 2.0 or 3.0) system using SMB (Samba), the file gets transfer but contains of file dose not (Only empty file size of 0 KB gets created on windows Server 2012).

Additional Info:

  • File transfer from UNIX to Windows Server 2003 (SMB 1.0) works fine.
  • Command: Smbclient //backroom/e -Utest%abc -c "put /tmp/test.txt abc\abcdata\test.txt"
  • This produces the following error:
    • Error writing file:  ERRSRV - ERRerror (non-specific error code.)
    • 0.0kb/s transferred
  • There is not logging in Event log (System and application) in Server 2012 regarding this failure.


How to enable SMB RAW mode on Windows 2012R2 Server File Sharing?

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We are currently migrating old Win2003 servers to Windows 2012R2 server, but they need to do file sharing with old Windows 98SE controllers / industrial pc's.
We have added & enabled CIFS/SMB1 functionality in the server manager (roles / features), and changed some local policies to allow file sharing between Win98SE & Win2012R2. This works fine now.
However, we notice a large speed difference between file transfer between Win98SE & Win2003 and Win98SE & Win2012R2.
I looked into the SMB traffic with wireshark, and the only difference in the way the files are being exchanged is that Windows 2003 supports RAW mode for SMB (which is used by Win98SE), and Windows 2012R2 does not support it by default.
I tried to enable/disable this on Win2012R2 server through the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\EnableRaw    (0 or 1), but neither setting made a difference (alway rebooted the server after changing settings to make sure they were applied correctly.

Please see the attached screenshots of both Windows 2003 & 2012R2 SMB capablities in the SMB negotation response capture.

Win2003 SMB Negotiation Response


Win2012R2 SMB Negotiation Response

Does anybody know how to enable/disable SMB RAW mode on Windows 2012R2?

Thank you in advance for your help!!


Windows 2008 R2 System Volume Information too large

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Hello,

My System Volume Information folder on my Win 2008 R2 is over 300GB, total partition size is 3.7 TB. I'm using this partition to store third party backup software files. maybe a 100 files, that is all what this drive has. When I tried to delete some older System Volume Information files, nothing happens. I do not get permission denied or anything!! How can I reduce the size of this folder? Shadow copies is disabled on all partitions.

DFS cluster migration to VNXe CIFS server

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hi team,

we have a DFS cluster and users are pointed to domain based UNC

Domian.Local\Root\department\UserFolder

note: each users directly mapped to his own folder manually not GPO not script around 1000 Users :(

now we have new CIFS server names HQCIFS.Domain.Local\Root\department\Userfolder

any idea to after doing the migration to keep the folder's mapping as is without re-mapping it again, meanwhile to connect with the same name?

i'm thing to rename the CIFS server to be same DFS server cluster name after disabling the cluster but if i did this 

users will access \\HQCIFS.domain.local\Root\... whoever we need it to be \\domain.local\Root 

any idea's?

HELP! DFS Shares suddenly unavailable after lateset updates - no errors

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Good morning,

This morning all of our office experienced slow logons and missing drives that should have been mapped to DFS shares.
No errors in any event logs on the servers, just the client, indicating that the server is unavailable. The DFS shares are accessible if I just go to run, and type in the same path name to the DFS share.
We have two targets at this site, an older server 2008R2 file server, and a newer 2012R2 files server introduced 3 weeks ago. We've been running this setup for 10 years with no problems, starting with 2003 R2.

I ran a batch of updates to the 2008R2 files server last night. None of the looked to be related to DFS.

I've tried retargeting to the 2008R2 DFS share by making the 2012 R2 one the last in the manually defined order, but there has been no difference. There doesn't appear to be any DNS issues between servers.

If I run a "net use h: /home" it takes a long time, then returns "Drive h: is now connected to \\mydomain\department. Your home directory is h:\it\Brad".
When I type h: it takes me to the DFS root, not to my home directory. We have another drive "I" which is a common DFS share that maps fine.

4 days ago I did remove DFS, DC, DNS services from another aging 2008R2 server with no problems at the time.

I can't tell what is broken without an error message. Where do I look?

Thx


B


Same error on various Windows Platforms - 7 & 8.1 - Cant Add, Edit or Delete on Shared Network Drive

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I thought it would be best to put my issue here as i get the same issue on Windows 7 & 8.1

This issue first came about when one of our new staff told me they kept getting 'you need permission to perform this action' when creating a new folder or editing existing files on a shared network drive.

Now i am a domain administrator and being a shared network drive i have double and tripled checked that she has access as her permissions on this drive are set to 'full control'. The current owner on this drive is the 'DOMAIN\Administrators' group. I am an administrator myself and my account is a member of 'DOMAIN\Administrators' and even i get the same 'you need permission to perform this action' message. Even when i try to create a new shared folder on the server and map the drive, i get the same error.

This user has 6 network drives mapped to her account. Out of those, 4 other drives allow here to add, edit and delete files without any issues, except the other 2 which seem to be causing problem to her and myself. I have checked the settings of these working shared network drives and cant see anything different. The pictures below however are what i have mapped to my own administrator account and it still asks for Administrators permission even though i am an administrator!?

I haven't attempted a restart of the server yet. Current Server architecture is Windows 2012 R2 


Remote user unable to access shared drive

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DC/File server is 2008 R2. Client uses Windows 8.1 joined to the domain and is almost permanently working remote.

I have a file share on the server and folders in it. Access Based Enumeration is turned on for the share so users only see what folders they have access to.

Users in the office can access folders inside share no problem. This user connects via VPN and gets an access denied when trying to open the share. However she can open the Netlogon and Sysvol shares on the server, but not the file share. This user is a member of the same groups as other users who do not have the problem, but are onsite. This happens if the user logs into to the PC and connects the VPN or at the logon screen activates the VPN which then logs her into the PC.

What am I missing here? I've done this many times before and have never run into this.


Jonathan

Should ReFS be used without Storage Spaces?

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To my understanding, ReFS can't repair detected file or metadata corruption unless it's hosted on a Storage Spaces volume.  Assuming this is true, it stands to reason that ReFS should not be used unless hosted on Storage Spaces volume.  Is this accurate?

New-DFSNRoot Access Denied Error on 2012 R2 (2003 Forest/Domain)

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Hi All,

I'm unable to create a working DFS-N root using New-DFSNRoot.  The runs without issue and the DFS-N is visible but if I then try to issue a New-DfsnFolder I get the following;

New-DfsnFolder : Access to a CIM resource was not available to the client.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-DfsnFolder –Path "\\example.com\Root1\Folder1" -TargetPath $SMBSourc ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (MSFT_DfsNamespaceFolder:Root\Microsoft\...NamespaceFolder) [New-DfsnFolder], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MI RESULT 2,New-DfsnFolder

If I attempt to add the folder via the MMC I get;

\\example.com\Root1\Folder1: The folder target \\fileserver1\Folder1 cannot be added to the folder.  Access is denied.

Creating the Root and Folder using the MMC alone works without issue.  I'm running the powershell from a 2012 R2 box on a 2003 functional level forest/domain (so the DFS-N root can't be in 2008 mode).

When looking at the object in ADSI edit (CN=Root1,CN=Dfs-Configuration,CN=System,DC=example,DC=com) and comparing to another root created using the MMC the security permissions appear to be lacking an entry for the root server (permission to read/write all properties).  When the permissions are manually added (and permitted to propagate) the I am able to add a folder to the namespace using both powershell and mmc.

So I guess my question is can anybody else confirm this issue or is it something specific to our environment?

Work Folders default settings

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Dear All,

Is there a way to reset default settings of work folders on Windows server 2012 R2. I tried removed role and reinstalled again the work folders role but it catches the same settings that was configured before removing the role.

Kindly assist to get the work folders default settings again to configure with new settings.

Thanks

Scripting techniques for shares on Windows 2008 R2 Clustered File Server

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Scenario: Windows Server 2008 R2 Clustered FS, two nodes.

Needs: I have to move all file system structure from a clustered disk to another, then recreate all shares and quotas.

Now I had found an unsopported way to backup quotas by saving disk "System Volume Information" and restoring on new disk.

About shares: is there any way to script shares export and import when configured at cluster level? Unfortunately I can't use Get-SmbShare and Set-SmbShare because they're included only from Windows Server 2012.

Any advice about it?

DFS Advice

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Looking for some guidance on how we should setup some new infrastructure we've recently purchased as part of a SAN replacement project.

Current setup is that we have multiple virtual Windows 2003 file servers that have Domain DFS Roots on them.

We've purchased 4x HP StoreEasy 3830's which are setup as 2+2 node clusters. One cluster is at our production site and one is at our DR site.

We're migrating all of the DFS roots and data on to these and are hoping to have high available/seamless transition between sites if we need to invoke DR.

We're quite confident on how we can setup the live site by using file server cluster services but are a little unsure on how to setup the DFS for the DR site.

We also use Access Based Enumeration on the Server 2003 which has resulted in us having to cacls commands to apply NTFS permissions to each DFS Link created.

1. Can anyone recommend or provide any links to how we can setup the two clusters so DFS/data is replicating and accessible?

2. Even if we get the data replicating, will we have an issue with the ntfs permissions on each DFS link, because the cacls command points to the local server/cluster name if we fail over connections to the second cluster it all changes and the permissions will not be in place? How can we resolve this issue?

Thank you in advance


VSSUIRUN Process

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Hello Everybody,

Today Our File server has problem with Volume Shadow copy that not working.

I went to process, i saw one process name "VSSUIRUN" is running 18 times of itself..

Could you help me with this and what happen?

Best regards,


VeasnaYim


High disk write percentage

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What could be causing the write percentage to be very high on my 2008 R2 servers? I ran diskmon to see what the disk activity looked like and it's almost all writes, even when I'm the only user logged in and not running any programs. I am not seeing any performance problems, latency, etc, but it strikes me as odd that there is so much writing happening. I'm also not seeing any problem with disk space being used up, so it must be processes that are constantly overwriting something?

I'm seeing the same type of activity on physical servers and VMs. The VMs are on an equallogic san, and SanHQ shows above 95% write percentage pretty consistently on the Windows server LUNs. FWIW. most of these servers are in their own LUNs, and they are separate from the data LUNs.

Is this normal?

Failed SMB Connections - Server Not Found

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I have a Windows 7 Pro client (through VPN tunnel) that can connect RDP, HTTP/S, SMB, and PING to Server A (Server 2008) but cannot map any SMB shares (by FQDN or IP) to Server B (Server 2008 R2). Client can RDP, HTTP/S and PING to Server B. Both servers are in the same LAN segment and sitting on same VMware host.

Where do I even begin to look?!? Any help would be appreciated.

File name too long cannot copy (cont'd)

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5/22/2014

This is an addendum to locked forum File name too long cannot copy.  Just want to share what worked for me.

On a file server running Windows Server 2008 R2, I ran into this issue for only two files at the same path.  I was trying to move them to a different local drive while maintaining the exact same file structure.  After reading the entire thread referred to above, I tried the method in which a user mapped a drive to the parent folder of the affected file(s).  Here's how my dilemma played out:

  • The file names lengths were 231 & 230, including their extensions.
  • The parent folder path length = 40 yielding 271 for the longest path.
  • Source: E:\users\<8-char user name>\<7-char dir name>\<13-char dir name>\
  • Destination: "G" drive with same file structure.

Steps taken:

  1. Made the file structure on G: the same as the source.
  2. Shortened the names of the folders in the source folder's path; luckily, there were only two.  It became this:
    E:\users\<8-char user name>\<1-char dir name>\<1-char dir name>\
  3. File structure of destination remained intact.
  4. Mapped a drive to each path.
  5. Was able to perform usual operations on the files; in this case, I moved them.

I didn't care to open them because I had accomplished my goal and the user account to which this home folder was associated was already in the disabled state.  THE END...and a very happy one at that! :-)

EDIT: The computer from which I mapped the drives was running Windows 7 Enterprise SP1, 32-bit.

copying files larger than 2GB getting error

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hi

I'm having a problem with large file transfers (2GB+) between server 2003R2 32bit and server 2008R2 64bit

If I attempt to push a 3.5GB file from the 2008R2 x64 server to a network share on the 2003R2 x86 server, the copy fails just after the 2GB point in the file and gives an error dialogue box

"Cannot copy <file>: The specified network name is no longer available"

If I attempt to push the same file between a 2003R2 x32 server to the same location (i.e. server platform matches) the copy succeeds

The same behavior occurs if I attempt to pull the file using the server 2003R2 x86 server, pulling from the 2008R2 x64 server gives the same error dialogue, pulling from another 2003R2 x86 server succeeds

All firewall and antivirus products and services have been disabled to eliminate them as being factors

At a bit of a loss, I get that x86 to x64 allows more RAM to be addresses, but as far as I knew, the NTFS file system was more or less the same ?

Anyone any ideas ?

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