Folder sharing and security permissions
Hello,I have a USB drive attached to a Windows 2003 R2 file server. In that drive, there are folders shared to different domain user groups. The server now has hardware issue and starts to fail. I...
View ArticleAuditing on file server - Alert when a special amount of data has been copied
Hi guys,guess the title says it all. Having several file servers on Windows Server 2008R2 and looking for a (third) party solution which alerts me by e-mail when a special amount of data has been...
View ArticleNetwork Drive Mapping for users who have Port 445 (possibly others) Blocked...
Nice to see my original posts are still up. I was hoping that in the ensuing time someone had found a solution. At least I can now see many other posting the same problems. :) Thought I was losing...
View Articleaudit directory and searching through the logs for deleted file
Windows Server 2003I have found article http://whatevernetworks.com/?p=108 And in description of this article is: to found deleted files in auditing directory I have to found event 560. But I have...
View ArticleDFS Namepace Server High Availability not Working
Hi, my current environment is the following. A Single Forest\DomainWinows 2003 Forest\DOmain functional level48 DC's at multiple sites worldwide2 Windows 2003 Domain Controllers also acting as the...
View ArticleDFS Users able to write to Root Folder
Setup: Win 2k8 R2 on both clustered serversServer A C:\DFSroots contain DFS folders and folders with targetServer B C:\DFSroots contain DFS folders and folders with target + other files created/moved...
View ArticleCan't format iSCSI disks
Hi everyone, I have a test lab (everything is Win 2012 R2) with 2 hosts and 2 VMs (on host1) that will use iSCSI storage from the second host. Everything worked fine, i was able to use the iSCSI target...
View ArticleShared folder name change
i have a request to change the name of a shared folder. I know there is NTFS permissions to consider so I want to be sure that when I change the name there aren't any other considerations Any advice...
View ArticleFTP Issue "Unlink" error on Windows 2003 Server
Hi, I have an issue with FTP. I am loosing files. Due to the unlink error below files are being deleted on the remote server before they can be donwloaded.Can anyone help ?230-User logged in Authorized...
View ArticleNFSv4 Client on 2008R2/2012/2012R2
I need to connect our 2008R2/2012/2012R2 servers to Unix NFSv4 Shares for backup proposes. However our Unix team reports that they are only connecting as v3.My Question, is NFSv4 available to Client...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Join domain
I received a Windows 2012 Standard server from a vendor that was partially configured. When I fired it up, I set the IP, mask, gateway, etc. I can ping from the console of the server and see my DC,...
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SMB3 Multichannel theory question
Hello!http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/06/28/the-basics-of-smb-multichannel-a-feature-of-windows-server-2012-and-smb-3-0.aspx"This typical configuration involves an SMB client and SMB...
View ArticleDistributed File System Replication (DFSR) STATIC RPC PORT
I would like to set the static RPC port that DFSR uses via registry; I do not wish to use the command line option dfsrdiag staticRPC /port:. Anyone know if this can be done via registry? (Server...
View ArticleDFS Namespace error 1297 after bad patch
After a bad kb my server is having some really odd issues. I have got all the other services that the patch broke up and running except for DFS Namespace. I am getting error 1297 : A privilege that...
View ArticleAccess based enumeration not working in DFS
HelloI have DFS server running on server 2008 R2Created namespace server \\server\users and then namespace created under that called test2.enabled access-based enumeration for the namespace server...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Deduplication and Macs
We are in the process of evaluating Server 2012 R2's Dedupe functionality and I am wondering if turning it on affects macs accessing deduped data negatively? Anyone has any experience with this?...
View ArticleWindows server 2012 UAC Folder problem
Hi.There was anoying feature (some call it bug) when Windows 2008 R2 UAC blocks folder acces if You are member of local Administrators group and NTFS ACL is allowing only Adminitrators and other users...
View ArticleCan DFS be used to improve access times?
I’m curious to know if DFS can be used to improve client performance when we have a large number of users all attempting to access the same data simultaneously. Specifically, I was curious of...
View ArticleShadow Copies wiped out.
I have a Windows 2008 File Server which we have shadow copies running on 1 volume M-F 8-6 which gives us about a 1 weeks worth. This morning I was shocked to see that all my shadow copies were gone...
View ArticleRecover offline files from the local cache
hopefully this is the forum for this issue as i couldn't find a clear fit as to where to place it.I have a Windows XP client where the user, being ignorant of such things, was working offline for quite...
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