Hi there,

On our 2003, domain joined 2008R2 servers, and W7 workstations we cannot access a network share by putting the path in the 'run' box like \\servername\share.

The error that appears is (translated): Network Error. 0x80070002. Cannot find the specified file.

But, when browsing the network via the GUI I can open the share and I'm also able to map the share with net user: y: \\servername\share....????

The XP workstations are not affeted by this problem.

Already checked DNS etc and I am puzzled now.

Anyone?

hi, 

I am trying to compile a report on my windows 2012 R2 NTFS and share permissions. 

What would be the minimum privilege needed on the folders in order to read the permissions ?   

I inherited 2 DFS-R hosts connected via a WAN.  We'll call them Michigan and California.  We have several replication groups, one of which is massive, in the realm of 1.4million files and 1.6 Terabytes after deduplication.  About 2 weeks ago, all of a sudden we had a 1.4 million file back log.  For whatever reason, that backlog jumped back up to 1.4 million at least once since then.  Fast forward to earlier this week and the backlog of files being sent from California to Detroit is ZERO. However, the backlog of files being sent from Detroit to California is seemingly stuck at right around 80,000 and growing (as users continue to make changes).  For the life of me, I can't figure out what's the hold up.  The DFSR logs are pretty much greek to me.  I've seen suggestions to disable membership of the backlogged node, wait for the changes to replicate in AD and get picked up by the member servers, then re-enable it, to kick off an initial sync.  The problem is, I'm under the impression if I do that I'll lose data that hasn't replicated from Detroit to California yet, since California would become the "master".  Sure I can run a preemptive backup, but there's still a chance that someone will change something while that 18 hour backup runs.

Are there any ideas of what I can do.  I'd love to narrow this down to figure out what exactly is the hold up.  I'm at my wit's end with this thing.

Long term, the plan is to replace this current DFS solution with something else or to at least prune it down and/or break it into smaller parts.  However, I'm stuck with what I've got for the moment.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

eventlogger

\The Data Deduplication Service service terminated with the following service-specific error:
%%2153141004

trying to start the service

msg from server manager 

Hello guys,

In our company we have mapped X drive for file sharing.
So there are folders already created by sysadmin for our employees.
These folders are hidden for all other users and see only those who have the right to access on them.
For example: If only user1 has access permissions on folder1 only that user can see this folder. 
At the same time, all domain users can write some files in that X drive as well.

So, we need that no one in our domain has write permissions in X drive and only concrete users could write files on specific folders created by system administrator.

Can you give us your suggestions or do you have some experience on this issue ?

Thanks in advance,

One of my namespace servers shows its site as "Unknown" for every folder target it hosts in the DFS console. It is a 2008 R2 server.

I have other 2008 R2 namespaces servers in the same site and subnet and they all accurately display what site they are in, in the console.

i am getting a strange error when using a cname to connect to a NAS. We run server 2012 R2 DC's and have a few server 2012 R2 web servers. the web application is built to use the CNAME to call the NAS. when it does it gets a logon prompt saying the username and password are wrong. When i test the host name of the NAS I get no logon prompt. I have tried every reg hack i can think of and still no dice. Any thoughts. 

TLDR

Server connects to NAS through CNAME and gets logon error but hostname of NAS works fine. 

I installed an HPE DL360 gen10 server a month ago running 2016 Server Essentials and most of the hiccups have been ironed out now. However, I'm struggling with the dashboard and particularly the storage. All of the data used by my colleagues is on a separate mapped drive (d:) to the OS partition, running in RAID 10. They are all logged in on domain user accounts and have access remotely using the built-in Anywhere Access.

The problem I really need some help with is that Server Folders seem to be disappearing from the Dashboard Storage section, even though they clearly working and accessible. They are even working through the Remote Web Access (although yesterday they disappeared from it). There doesn't seem to be much reason or rhyme to this but it feels like a fairly serious risk to our business so any help or suggestions would be massively appreciated. One thing that does seem to reliably cause problems is trying to create a new user account (and assign server folder permissions) through the dashboard... this then just hangs at the assigning permissions stage and I have to force close Dashboard... I reopen it and all of the Server Folders are no longer listed for an indeterminate period of time.

Help please or point me in the direction of the right support would be great :)

We encounter timeouts of 60 seconds before a SQL backup is starting on an SMB3 share with continuous availability.

After analyzing this problem, we noticed that we can reproduce this timeout when we request the properties of the SMB3 share, so we can exclude that the timeout has something to do with SQL server.  

In the wireshark trace we notice the following when we request the properties of an SMB3 share, with the continuous availability setting on.  (We can reproduce this on Netapp storage, as well on on windows file server cluster).

The sharename = SMBTest

The client is a Server 2012 R2 server, the SMB3 share resides on an windows FS cluster.

In the wireshark trace we notice that there is a problem with the UNC path in the Tree connect request.  

The last character is missing.  We also tried this with other clients (windows server 2008 R2, windows server 2008, …) and we see the same problem.

I did not include the complete trace, but it takes 60 seconds before we finally get the properties.    (a timeout that is introduced with Continous available fileshares). 

When we disable continuous availability on the fileshare, we also see the problem in the trace with the disappearing last character, but we do not have the extra timeout of 60 seconds.   So we almost have immediately the properties windows.  (And also when we try to make a SQL backup on that share, we notice that we no longer have the timeout of 60 seconds.)

On SMB2 shares the 60 seconds timeout is not present either, although ... in the wireshark trace, the last characther of the UNC path is missing as well.

According to me the real problem is caused by the wrong UNC path in the SMB packt (tree connect request tree), which exists since a long time, but in the past we never noticed this.  But now with the new SMB3 functionality (continous available fileshares) that introcuded the default 60 seconds timeout, we are experiencing problems.

For the moment we have a workaround for this problem.  We create an extra fileshare, which name is one character less.  So in our case, “SMBTes”.  The tree connect request tree is then successful.  

Is this a bug in the SMB implementation ?  Does someone else has encountered this problem ?  It seems strange that the problem with the wrong UNC path has never been reported before.

thanks in advance for feedback.

Hello,

I am facing a challange /reqeust from a client who wants the following 

2 folders both with sub folders (lets call them Main A & B and Sub folders A & B) and they want to be able to create folders on there own inside those sub folders. Now comes the tricky part all those folders need to be read only after creating.

So lets say the user has created a folder in Main A Sub folder B in there he places a file which must be read only access.

I have been looking at different kinds of scipts (VB to PowerShell) but nothing comes close,

How would one approach this request with out the use of 3rd party tools

Kind regards,

Ben 

Hi all,

New server and installation of Server 2008 R2, AD and SQL Server running on it.

Whenever i run a Windows Server Backup i get the following series of Errors in the Application Log, in this order:

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.

Operation:
   Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
   Current State: DoSnapshotSet

Error-specific details:
   Error: NetLocalGroupGetMemebers(Administrator), 0x80070560, The specified local group does not exist.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.

Error-specific details:
   Error: NetLocalGroupGetMemebers(Administrator), 0x80070560, The specified local group does not exist.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.

Operation:
   PostSnapshot Event

Context:
   Execution Context: Writer
   Writer Class Id: {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
   Writer Name: Shadow Copy Optimization Writer
   Writer Instance ID: {cdef2758-d4d7-4d05-8b99-5f1376e4614c}

Error-specific details:
   Error: NetLocalGroupGetMemebers(Administrator), 0x80070560, The specified local group does not exist.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.

Operation:
   Gather writers' status
   Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
   Current State: GatherWriterStatus

Error-specific details:
   Error: NetLocalGroupGetMemebers(Administrator), 0x80070560, The specified local group does not exist.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.

Operation:
   Gathering Writer Data
   Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
   Execution Context: Requestor
   Current State: GatherWriterMetadata

Error-specific details:
   Error: NetLocalGroupGetMemebers(Administrator), 0x80070560, The specified local group does not exist.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.

Operation:
   BackupComplete Event
   Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
   Current State: BackupComplete

Error-specific details:
   Error: NetLocalGroupGetMemebers(Administrator), 0x80070560, The specified local group does not exist.

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.

Operation:
   Initializing Writer

Context:
   Writer Class Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Name: SqlServerWriter
   Writer Instance Name: SQL Server 2008 R2:SQLWriter

Error-specific details:
   Error: NetLocalGroupGetMemebers(Administrator), 0x80070560, The specified local group does not exist.

The Backup runs succesfully however, as does any backup that i run with Backup Exec 2010 on the same server (running these backups also causes these same errors in the Event Log).

The only oher fix i found out in the wild that even remotely gets near these errors is this one:

http://allfaq.org/forums/t/156203.aspx

I tried this but it simply stopped the backups from working at all.

Any ideas anyone?

Many thanks all.

Hello,

I don't understand what happened on my files servers ; when I open a file with a user (random user or admin) : the open file appear in the list below, but few seconds later : the file disappear in the list, whereas the file is still open by the user ...

Can someone explain that ? 

I work on this fact cause I wanted to find a way to know if a file (html file) is already open by another user ; and if it is already open : prevent new openning. 

Thnaks for your help

In my work place, we have Windows Storage space server cluster configured on Windows 2016 connected to JBOD. 
It is serving as ISCSI target server service. I have one extra JBOD box attached to the same cluster that has SSD and HDD mix. Does it good to create storage tier volume to store iscsi disk on there to provide iscsi target service to other server that will use it?

Thanks,

I would like to generate a report with powershell which creates a report with folder permissions on an ntfs volume.

is there an easy way to set this up ?

Hello All,

    I have created a windows 2016 cluster of two nodes , but when i run the validation report i get error in cluster network communication stating that the UDP port 3343 is not able to connect over the Admin vlan. my query here why is the UDP port opening required over Admin Vlan , i have configured the public and heartbeat vlan too and set the admin vlan to do not use for any cluster communication still its asking for UDP port to be opened across the Admin vlan.

Error

Hi.

We have (had) a 4 node S2D cluster running Hyperconverged.

One of the nodes had a critical failure, which resulted in a complete system rebuild of that node (don't ask me why). We knew we had to do some manual cleanup in the cluster. We know the drill (I think).

- Evict failed node from cluster
- After Storage-Jobs finish, remove the missing disks in the S2D pool. Pool size shrinks.
- Reinstall failed node, do not join cluster yet. First on this node remove S2D Pool, Virtual Disk and reset the S2D drives to enable them to be pooled again.

When we try to re-add the node, it fails. Cluster report only shows 1 warning which interests me. On the 3 remaining nodes, something is still left over from the old failed node. In the Storage layer.

********************************************************************************************

Get-StorageSubSystem -FriendlyName *clu* | Debug-StorageSubSystem

Anyone ?

Greetings,
Richard

Domain controllers: Server 2012 R2 and Server 2008 R2.

We have 2 servers we us as the central servers for everything else and they are Server 2012 R2. Everything else that connected to them at 2008 R2.

We are running at a 2008 R2 functional level.

I get this error on about 25% of my server. The sync appears to be fine but I cannot pinpoint why this issue occurs. It says it is "paused for backup or restore" almost every hour, then it reconnected and works fine. In most cases it reconnected within 30 seconds but it still gives that warning first.

What can I do to fix what ever is causing this issue. There are not lasting issues, just a temporary warning. Every day or so, I will get an error, but again it reconnects after about 30 seconds.

Event ID 5014

The DFS Replication service is stopping communication with partner ADDC for replication group Domain System Volume due to an error. The service will retry the connection periodically. 
 
Additional Information: 
Error: 9036 (Paused for backup or restore) 
Connection ID: 9B4CAE32-0CF2-49F2-AC5F-6A1D01177A92 
Replication Group ID: 318DDC2C-6BB5-4D28-9AC7-BD514AD95E8C

Event ID 5002

The DFS Replication service encountered an error communicating with partner ADDC for replication group Domain System Volume. 
 
Partner DNS address: ADDC.domain.local 
 
Optional data if available: 
Partner WINS Address: ADDC 
Partner IP Address: 10.190.1.10 
 
The service will retry the connection periodically. 
 
Additional Information: 
Error: 9036 (Paused for backup or restore) 
Connection ID: 9B4CAE32-0CF2-49F2-AC5F-6A1D01177A92 
Replication Group ID: 318DDC2C-6BB5-4D28-9AC7-BD514AD95E8C

The DFS Replication service successfully established an inbound connection with partner ADDC for replication group Domain System Volume. 
Additional Information: 
Connection Address Used: ADDC.domain.local 
Connection ID: 9B4CAE32-0CF2-49F2-AC5F-6A1D01177A92 
Replication Group ID: 318DDC2C-6BB5-4D28-9AC7-BD514AD95E8C

I don't get the 5002 event ID everytime. Just sometimes. Mostly it's the other 2 I get.

Thank you
Charles

Hi All

A month back 4 of our 14 sub folders under shared root folder mysteriously went missing.

On investigation we found them to be hidden with the hide attribute check box being greyed out.

We went through many forums and could not find a solution.

We even went to the extent of formatting the file server and recreating them thinking it was an undetected virus that keeps out of our Eset file server solution but it came back.

Our folder structure is as follows;

Root folder "ABCD" is shared with Everyone "full control file share permission" and NTFS permission to Admin "full control" and Everyone "list folder contents" as DFS.

We have within, sub folders per Dept. name that continues with the said root permission but with NO inherited.

To each Dept. folder we assign AD Security Groups for the said Dept. and provide them with NTFS "Modify" permission.

The Issue:

We were able to root cause and trace the cause to a new user JohnD. The moment we add him to any folder existing or new with NTFS"Modify" permission the folder gets hidden (does not happen with "Read & Execute" permission).

It gets worse, any domain Global security group to which he was in is also affected and stays that way even after we removed him.

Eg: when we add the said group with NTFS"Modify" permission the folder gets hidden (does not happen with "Read & Execute" permission).

We deleted and recreated 3 of the 4 groups he was in and assigned them to new folders and set NTFS "Modify" permission, this time the folder does not get hidden.

However a new issue of nested users not being able to access files saying they don't have access. When we add the user direct to the folder it is ok.

We can delete and recreate the User but both default Domain Users and Everyone security groups are affected.

Could this have been a virus that targets such AD Users and Groups?

How do we even troubleshoot this and at what attribute level?

Rgds Yohan