DFS - PermissionDenied when trying to delete a DFS Target folder
I'm trying to remove a DFS target folder in a process to migrate these to a new server. I get an "Access Denied" when trying to do it from the DFS Management GUI. I get a "PermissionDenied" when...
View ArticleThe DFS Replication service has been repeatedly prevented from replicating a...
So there are more than a couple threads already about DFSR issues even mentioning this error, however... most of the "files" listed dont exist and have random names e.g.35464C00&C0D56000 the full...
View ArticleCan a DFS NameSpace Folder Target be on 2 Active Namespaces?
Can a Folder Target be on 2 Active NameSpace?Also can a DFS-R Member be on 2 Active Replication groups?
View ArticleDFS NameSpace & DSF-R Converting from Phyiscal to Virtual
I have a Physical 2008R2 server with DFS Namespace & DFS-R. I want to do an VMWare Convert to VM. It will have to same name, but I want to upgrade it to Server 2016. Should the DFS work with no...
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NTFS Permission: Lockdown
Hi Team,Have a good day! I need your help to lock-down NTFS permission for a folder into file server on domain. The scenario is every user had their own folder and need only a user itself can access...
View ArticleRaid 5 Can't replace disk with bad blocks
We have a server 2012r2 with 5 x 2Tb disks in Raid5The raid 5 is a software raid using the Server o/s and dynamic disksOne of the disks has bad blocks and shows 'errors' both in Diskpart and Disk...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 Share
OK, this is an odd one but someone one may have come across it.We have a fileshare on 2008 R2 whic has 1 single fileshare on it and was working fine untile a reboot, the permissions all look ok on the...
View ArticleDealing with emails
Hello everyone. Hope you are doing well. See below for my question. Thank you in advance for your time and reply.Before I get to my questions let me note one thing. I'm assuming that this forum 'File...
View ArticleDFS Shares Prepended by DFS SID and No Longer Accessible
Hello,Environment: We use two dfs servers which replicate all namespaces and dfs folders between each other. There are two namespaces: Data and Users. First server (DC12) has referrals enabled the...
View ArticleDFS Replication - Compressing a folder participating in DFS Replication...
We're using this command to create a daily backup of a folder by zipping it:[io.compression.zipfile]::CreateFromDirectory($Source, $destination)We noticed that after setting up DFSR, the size of the...
View ArticleNFS + NTFS volumes using mountpoints and Linux
Hi all:I'm having very wierd experiences using Mountpoints and Linux (CentOS7)I have a lot of volumes mounted using "mountpoints", for example, "logs" volume is a 500GB volume mounted in...
View ArticleGenerate reports of permissions for non-technical managers.
Hi,I'm looking for a way to generate easy to read NTFS permission reports.These reports will be presented to non-technical managers before data migration takes place.I've been tasked to find a solution...
View ArticleFile Server Cluster for hosting Service files
We have a 2 node general use File Server Cluster (herein known as the file server cluster and running Server 2012 R2) with a number of roles configured and shares on each node. One of these shares on a...
View ArticleCould I clone pc which join domain already?
Hello, My company want to replace new hardisk to old one. Could I clone pc which has already joined domain?
View ArticleS2D windows failover cluster disk operational status
Hi all,I have a 2 node s2d windows failover cluster in azure.When i shutdown a node, the disk rsources failover to another node.However, before the status coming to OK, the disk operational status is...
View ArticleS2D on Windows 2019 Core, OS doesn't recognize plp for cache SSDs
Hey there!we wanted to build a S2D cluster and got these SSDs as...
View ArticleNetwork share access from workgroup windows server 2019 to domain member...
Hi experts,maybe I am getting to old to understand such a behaviour:We have a single AD domain with several file and print servers, terminalserver and so on.I have now created a Windows Server 2019...
View ArticleRandom files cannot be saved as they are IN USE on File Server
File server is Windows Server 2106 Standard. DFS is used to publish the namespace but replication is NOT used to replicate data to another server.Users randomly experience times when they are working...
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SMTP Settings for FSRM in Server 2016
I am trying to configure email notifications in the File Server Resource Manager SMTP settings to use an alternate port (port 2500) but I can find no obvious way to configure the port. I am currently...
View ArticleDo I backup both File Servers?
I have an environment where we have configured two servers with DFS and essentially replicating the data between both servers across two different regions. Does it make sense for me to run full backups...
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