DFS Replication group dropping from 2003R2 console
HI Alli have setup a dfs replication group between a 2003R2 and a 2008R2 server, for centrolised backup.now the replication is working correctly, and i can view my replication groups from the 2008R2...
View ArticleFile permissions gertting changed
I work in a school district. We have moved our student folders to WIndows server 2008 (datacenter edition) this past fall. Our files structure has root folders named with the graduation year and...
View ArticleWhere my disk space goes? I delete files but the disk space is not...
I have a Win2012 with a 1.5 TB partition created under Storage Spaces.In the morning i saw the free disk space and was about 4 GB!I found a shared folder with 211GB (=~211.000 GB) in more the 140.000...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Permissions -
OK, We are currently doing a revamp of our folder structure. We have an automated system that create client folders on one of our drives. I want to be able to set it up where users cant create...
View Articledual boot partions 7and 8
I have a dual boot hard disk with Win 7 and 8. I would like to add a third OS Windows XP to run legacy software and hardware. Using disk management in windows 7 is it OK, I have enough free disk space....
View ArticleProblems syncing since server name has changed.
I sync my files using the Sync center. The server address has changed and now my files no longer sync. Is there a way to point Windows to the new server (ie. change the path of the directory?)
View ArticleDFS-R and split horizon network with TMG.
All those who have experimented exhaustivly with DFS-R I have a question. I have been testing serveral implementations of DFS-R now for a couple of years and have narrowed down a unique combination of...
View ArticleLDAP Query for users with home directory on certain server
We are moving home directory shares from \\mjh-dc1 to\\mpjh-dc0 and i'm curious of an LDAP query or some better way to bulk find and change the home directory path in ADUC so these shares will work...
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Require Help with Storage expansion on Server 2012
Guys I could use a little help. Last year I upgraded one of my hyper-v servers to 2012 and enabled storage spaces on it. The server had a Dell Perc H700 with 6x 3TB in Raid6. I added 1 extra drive and...
View ArticleFree Space Size issue in windows 2008 server
Hello!I am getting C:\ Drive space issue in window server 2008. total C:\ Drive size is 80 gb and actual data size in C drive is 35 GB. When I checked properties of C drive, Free size showing 11 GB...
View ArticleDFS File Access
HI All, I'm setting up a DFS Server for 5 Sites and all the users are accessing one Business Data folder ( Most of them are shared excel work books and Excel/Word files) How this handle by DFS? If...
View ArticleAccess to DFS Namespace Target from Non-Domain Member Client Computer
Hi together, i have problems to accomplish the following task: We have a Domain based DFS Namespace (2008) with some targets to Windows Server 2008 R2 File Servers. The Namespace is hold by the Windows...
View Articlecheck dfsr primary memeber
I see a lot on how to set the primary dfsr member, but I do I check which member currently has that bit set?
View ArticleDFS Namespace Migration from Win2K3 R2 to Win2K8 R2
Dear all,In the past I regularly switched file servers with different hostnames and therefore I once created a namespace (\\ mydomain \ fs , please ignore the white spaces) under Distributed File...
View Articlechange in drive letter, on seagate backup drive, won't hold - I have to...
I have 4, 2 TG Seagate backup drives and have our auto backup software set to back up to ":G" Two of the backup drives are :F The drive letter change will not stay changed. I have to change it...
View ArticleDFS New Connection Namespace server missing
Our DFS topology has 30 servers. One of them does not show up in the drop down list of "receiving member" when attempting to add it as a "new connection" to our replication group. I removed and...
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Question regarding Shared folders, sessions and open files on File server
Hi guys,I have a web-application on two Web servers accessing it's storage space using \\filerserver01\disk1, \\filerserver01\disk2 etc..Just to point out that \\filerserver01 is a cluster resource on...
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Previous versions - Windows cannot access
We have a files server on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. On this server the shadow copy is activate, and we are able to restore with the user administrator. On a client machine, with a standard user we see the...
View ArticleNeed to Kill a connection to File Server
Hello, I have a 4 node Failover Cluster(2008R2) providing File Services, i share out the file services through SMB on a DFS-N. I have customer connection i need to kill currently writing at 56,000,000+...
View ArticleDFSR staging space issue
Hi Guys, We have one folder replicated by DFSR, and it seems the staging space is not big enough so there are some big files not replicated.But all other files are synced and looks good during daily...
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