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Repairing Parity Virtual Disk failing
I have a 4 disk SATA III controller with four 4 TB drives. I created a 4 disk parity storage pool with a single Virtual disk. One of the drives completely died and is no longer visible to windows....
View ArticleTroubles with shared folder Windows Server 2008 R2
We have a very simple new deployment server, hosts file services and runs WDS and VMAT thats it, not a DC or anything just a member server.We have a dedicated D drive (Since this server is a VM on an...
View ArticleScale out file servers still only have one instance of data, right?
I have used windows clustering to do a hyper-v cluster before, and now I am looking at the scale out file server feature. I wanted to make sure a hadn't missed any features.Even when you use scale out...
View ArticleConfig.ini
I need to allocate memory to a backup agent and was told I could had 2 lines to the config.ini to accomplish this. Where do I find the config.ini file and what is the proper way to add lines to it?
View ArticleManaging NTFS Rights - File Server on Windows Server 2003 R2
Hello everybody !I'm looking for help to give specifics rights on a directory tree ... like this one:├───.android ├───.gimp-2.8 │ ├───brushes │ ├───TEST │ ├───curves │ ├───dynamics │...
View ArticleDFS Namespace Shared folder not opening
Dear sir/madam, i shared a folder in domain client system (windows 7)with everyone read&write permission and i added the shared folder in DFS Namespace.i am trying to open...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Storage Spaces Tiering + Hyper-V , Backup & Replica
Hi, I'm building a new server for a client. The server will host a couple of VMs, everything will be 2012 R2. The server won't be part of a cluster although I may be able to use Hyper-V replica to...
View ArticleHow to properly restrict rights on home directories?
Howdy, I'm struggling with basic rights allocation here.The situation: Have a SHARE (USERS) with user directories under it.I have share rights set to full for everyoneI have domain admin F/C for share...
View Articlestop adding domain admins to folder security by default
Hi AllI would like to remove this default behavior. I have two local domain admins with access to file server. They always login to server as them. When they are changing any permissions on shared...
View ArticleDashboard not listing server folders and hard drives
I seem to have a problem with the dashboard on Windows Server 2012 essentials R2. The Storage tab of the dashboard is no longer displaying a list of server folders and hard drives. It just displays the...
View ArticleSMB share
Hello to all, I have a question regarding SMB. I would like to build a two-node cluster with SQL and I would use it as a storage pool technology. My question is about how to expose the disk to the SQL...
View ArticleTroubleshooting DFS referrals in a full mesh replication topology
Hi,I'm using DFS namespaces to publish links, but not DFS replication. We use a full mesh AD replication topology (multiple sites in 1 AD site link).Users on VPN sometimes do not get all the folders on...
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Users experiencing Delays in Accessing File Share using Windows Explorer
The issue has been Sporadic to All the users in our Client Location no matter Accessing File shares from Wired , wireless, network or remote-They have been experiencing the delays while accessing files...
View ArticleDFS Namespace DNS issue
Hi All,I'm configuring DFS for the first time. :)I have 3 sites, at my location i have 2 DC's and DFS (to be configured) DNS is hosted on both the DC's.2nd site has Infrastructure\Schema master. And...
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Cannot share directory with Everyone
I have several Server 2008 R2 servers, each with a share named IT$, each having the exact same permissions including "Everyone" having Read & Execute. What I use this share for is to run...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 DFS, System Error 53
Background Info- AD is functional level 2008 R2- Web server is running Windows 2012 + IIS (W1 > W5)- File Server is running Windows 2012 R2 and DFS (FS1, FS2)Now when i setup my dfs file share, it...
View ArticleStorage Server 2012 best practices? Newbie to larger storage systems.
I have many years managing and planning smaller Windows server environments, however, my non-profit has recently purchased two StoreEasy 1630 servers and we would like to set them up using best...
View Article2 blads with one iSCSI target on storage (windows server 2012 R2)
Hello to allI have problem with configure iSCSI target, so I need yours help.I have 2 blades server (HP) with Left-hand storage, installed win server 2012 R2 on both. On storage I configure the iSCSI...
View ArticleFileservice (smb) unresponsive - other service (TCP) available - smbclient...
Problem: Connections to fileshares(smb) on windows 2012 r2 server are suddenly not possible. This server is also a AD DS server and also GPO`s can`t be retrieved by other clients (example w2008 r2 RDS...
View Articlelost permission
hi all , iv been working on server 2008 to solve permission problem , user gave ownership for a folder(user account) on the server where user profiles will be stored , so that the user can't log into...
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