What does File server role in MS Windows 2008 R2 provides ?

January 30, 2013, 1:10 am

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Hello,

I don't understand what is the minimum installation of "File Server" role provides. I don't see any different between the following 2 scenarios:

• Fresh installation of Win 2008 R2 and setup shared folders
• Fresh installation of Win 2008 R2 with File Server role and setup shared folders

I understood that there are applications and tools under "file server" role we can choose to be installed. But my question is that what is the base installation of "file server" role (without any of those extra software) provides.

Thank you

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January 29, 2013, 3:27 pm

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Hallo

Ich habe ständig Bluescreens mit dem Fehlercode:

0x0000000a (0fffffa8025130010, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000001, 0xfffff800029812a6) Ich weiss einfach nicht wie ich in loswerde und bin am verzweifeln darum Hoffe ich ihr wisst wie?

Danke schon im Vohraus

Grüsse Simon

iSCSI Initiator using Round Robin w/ Subset dropping paths into Standby on its own?

January 28, 2013, 6:12 am

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Using the MS iSCSI Initiator on a Windows 2008 R2 host to connect to iSCSI target on an IBM XIV.  When discovered, the targets on the XIV report that they are available via six paths.  We want to use only four, so we've configured our initiator to use "Round Robin with Subset" and explicitly set the two undesired paths to standby mode rather than active.

Over time, we noticed an issue where all of this host'ss iSCSI traffic was being sent over only one of the paths rather than balanced among the four we'd explicitly selected.  Upon reviewing our Round Robin with Subset settings for the particular target, only one of the paths was set to Active with the remaining paths set to Standby.

Is this expected?  Will the MS iSCSI stack periodically modify the path preferences we manually set?  If so, what's the trigger and logic behind it?  Is there a better algorithm we should be using to tell the initiator to only use the paths we want?

Thanks!

Ray

NFS denied from esx server

January 30, 2013, 7:35 am

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Hi,

I am trying to mount a NFS share from a VMware esxi 4.1 and I am getting access denied message in the log on the vmware host.

I have setup the NFS share on a Windows 2012 with these settings.

Authentication: No server authentication/Enable unmapped user access/Allow anonymous access

Share: All Machines Read/write. Allowed Root access

NTFS: Everyone Access Modify

Thanks

Storage Manager for SANs - Options Greyed Out

January 25, 2013, 7:26 am

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I have just installed the “Storage Manager for SANS” feature on my W2K8 R2 system, and subsequently installed the EMC VDS Provider, from the executable se7400-WINDOWS-x64-VDS.exe, which was obtained from the EMC PowerLink site.

If I run diskraid.exe at the command line and type “list provider”, I see the EMC VDS Hardware Provider has been installed.  Says version is 4.6.0.0

The problem is that in Storage Server for SANS, i cannot see any drives, and when I select the Action menu, all the options are greyed out.

Is there a fix for this? There appears to be very little on the web regarding Storage Manager for SANs so I am guessing it’s a rarely used feature.

Thanks,

Lenny

Unable to directly access server that is a DFS partner

January 30, 2013, 8:15 am

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I have three servers that are part of a DFS namespace, and DFS replication group. I've noticed that if I try to access any of these servers directly, or by IP address, I am always taken to the DFS namespace instead. To illustrate, I have server1, server2, server3 and \\namespace\fileshare. If I enter in the UNC path of\\server1\fileshare it will instead give me whatever server is most appropiate per the DFS referral. So I type in\\server1\fileshare but instead I get referred to server2.

How do I directly access servers that are part of a DFS name space?

Can not see the menu option for Shared file.

January 23, 2013, 6:42 am

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Hi

I have a msg file that is located on a 2003 server share. I have tried to check the file menu and shows only the following option...see the pic.

I gen Open, Print, Open with and Send To.

Even if we try to open it, it will not work. 

If the same file I open locally from the server. I can see all the settings. I have checked the permissions and I could see its not a permission issue. Please someone can help me in.

The same thing happens even if you try to see the file from the server using UNC path.

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Taking ownership of files best practice and need help

January 30, 2013, 7:56 am

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Hi,

I've done a Robocopy from a file repository located in another domain to our own domain file share.

ACL has been copied for each file and folders, and so we do not have access to any files or folders because SID are just unknown (untrusted domain).

Ok, so I decide to take ownership of all directories and files and then renew all NTFS permissions with our domain accounts, but I have a problem :

When I try to take ownership of some directories recursively a lot of files are in "access denied". Sometimes dozens of files so I have to cancel ! Or I'm doomed to click 100000 times on my mouse on "Ignore".

I've tried to take ownership with "SYSTEM" account or "Domain admins" group but I still get the "access denied" pop up for some files.

Is there any best practice or command I can use to take ownership of all files and folder by "FORCE" ? I mean, why the file system is just denying that if I'm the super mega admin ? Is there any hidden account I'm not aware of ? :) Joking. But maybe this is not the best practice ?

Any help welcome, thanks !

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Where does the 1991-05 in the IQN come from?

January 30, 2013, 9:44 am

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Microsoft IQNs use the iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft prefix.  I'm curious to know, is there a particular meaning to that set of digits.  I've seen in other environments that it is referred to as a date - so in this case, May of 1991.  And perhaps it's the date (or a date) on which the creator of the IQN was in control of the reversed domain suffix (microsoft.com in this case).

Does anybody know if this is, in fact, why Microsoft iSCSI uses the prefix that it does?  Did Microsoft in fact register its domain name in May of 1991?  The only other thing I can see that happened in May of 1991 is that Microsoft broke off the relationship with IBM over OS/2 in that month and began developing Windows NT 3.1 in earnest, releasing it eventually in 1993.

Thoughts?

Move DFS from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012

January 30, 2013, 10:24 am

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I have DFS running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1 domain controller and I want to decomission this server. I want to move DFS to a new Windows Server 2012 server domain controller. Could you please give me the steps to do this? Thank you.

Folder Access is Denied

January 30, 2013, 11:45 am

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I am doing some file maint on my Windows Storage Server 2008 and noticed that there a number of folders that give me "Access id Denied" when trying to open them in the GUI. I am an administrator on the machine, I have checked the permission on the folder and all is fine there. I am able to change the owner security permissions etc. Effective Permissions shows that my Id has full control, however I still cannot access these folders. What Gives?

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DFS in small network

January 30, 2013, 11:37 am

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Hello,

we have a requirement for high availabilty for a network share on a file server. we only have one physical server (its a small business), the host is server 2012, and there are two VM's, one VM is server 2008 R2 Standard, the other is 2012. due to compatibility we currently can not upgrade 2008 R2 to 2012. The DFS is purely to provide redundancy for if a VM were to fail or reboot due to reconfigs or updates during the business hours, i am not aiming to accomodate physical failure so im well aware of this.

would there be any issues with having DFS configured in each of these VM's? what happens when it comes to stuff like clients determing latency and which DFS server to connect to? i have configured DFS before, but usually between two seperate physical servers...... im wondering how this would work on the same physical server with two VMs.... what issues am i likely to have if any?

thanks

Steve

Cound not map network drive: Extended error has occurred

January 29, 2013, 1:56 pm

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Hi everyone. I've got a 2 domain setup with a two-way trust set up, and have a user getting an error when trying to map a drive to a share on a server. The name of the server is \\rgm-server.domain.com (domain.com used for ease) and we have to use the FQDN because they are not part of the same forest. When the user maps a drive to the path \\rgm-server.domain.com\share, he gets the error "The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred: An extended error has occurred". If he then swaps out the FQDN for the machine's IP address \\10.0.1.51\share it works perfectly. When he does a net use command from thr command prompt, it gives an error 53. I have checked logs on his machine, and I see no entries relating to this. WHen he tries to just go straight to the server from the run command, \\rgm-server.domain.com, he gets the error "... is not accessible. YOu might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the admin of this server... The user name could not be found". But, again, if he uses the IP address, it works fine, and he can access everything on the server. I'm baffled.

-Time is perfectly synced within miliseconds, except that they are in the Central time zone, and we are in the Mountain time zone, so they are off by an hour.
-This is Windows 7 x64 client, and Windows server 2008 R2 SP1
-Computers are on different subnets (10.0.1.x and 10.0.2.x)
-Computers are connected through a firewall based persistent VPN. There are no restrictions on that connection.
-User can properly ping the server via the FQDN, and it resolves. User can also do a ping -a and get proper reverse DNS lookup. I can also do DNS lookups in both directions of his computer from the server.

It makes no sense that this would work fine with the IP address, but not with the FQDN. There are lots of threads about this all over the place, but I've found nothing that helps.

Anything else that I could check?

DFS ABE not working properly

January 29, 2013, 12:40 am

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Hi,

In our organization there are 1-2% of the users whose DFS Access Based Enumeration is not working. With the reset 98%, DFS ABE works as expected and they only see what they have access to.

These users see all of the folders within the same namespace, but can't access them (as expected). Normally any give user sees less than 10 folders. These few % see all 80 folders and they are frustrated that they have to scroll to find what they are looking for.

I use same group for ABE, Share and NTFS permissions so that shouldn't be the issue, since they can't access the folder even if they see it.

They don't have domain admin permissions, they are normal users.

Since with 98% of the users it works as it's supposed to, DFS and ABE should be fine? 

It doesn't matter what computers they use, evey Windows 7 computer they log on to has this issue. So it shouldn't be software issue?

In my mind that just leaves the active directory user account. But what there, that I can't figure out..

Any suggestions on what to do with this?

File server is 2008 R2

DFS is 2008 domain-based namespace and it's on two 2008 r2 ad-servers

Domain functional level is 2008

Clients are Windows 7 SP1

Thanks,
Petrus

ShotCut Error: the driver or network connection that the shortcut".link" refer to is unavailable.Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available

January 29, 2013, 12:59 am

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   I have one file server, its OS: Windows server 2008 R2, and create one shortcut to link with certain folders, when one user try to access the shared folder which owns the shortcut, the error alerts: "the driver or network connection that the shortcut".link" refer to is unavailable.Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available".  In the file server, the shortcut works well, nothing abnormal, just happens on the client.

  Who can help me to fix the issue ???

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Options for Running Chkdsk on Shared Cluster Drive

January 29, 2013, 1:11 pm

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Running Windows Data Server 2003 SP2.  Two nodes in a cluster with an array of shared storage.

Active node is reporting ntfs 55 errors in event log on Volume 11.  Recommended action is to run chkdsk.  Volumes are 300GB.

All my clustered resources are in one group. If I'm reading this (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176970) correctly, I will have to take the entire group offline for the duration of the chkdsk.  This is highly undesirable in what is supposed to be a highly available environment.

Is there any way I can run chkdsk just on Volume 11 without having to basically make my entire cluster unavailable for potentially hours?

Error : No network provider accepted the given network path" when trying to access server via UNC

June 23, 2011, 11:50 am

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Hello. I have been beating my head on this problem for a while. I have a Windows 2003 R2 SP1 server, with an Windows XP SP3 client that is having difficulty accessing it via UNC (\\servername). The server it is trying to get to also happens to be the DNS server.

When contact is attempted, I receive the error "no network provider accepted the given network path". I m able to ping the server by name, and a ping -a resolved the correct name.

I am also able to perform a nslookup from the client and it resolves names properly from the server it is trying to contact.

I've tried just about everything that I can think of:

• Configured the client to use a DHCP server
• Ensured that the host file was not interfering
• flushed DNS on the client
• Ensured client was appearing properly in DNS
• Ensured that the DNS server the client is contacting is correct (it is the server I am trying to get to).
• I cleaned an extra nameserver out of DNS that no longer exists.
• Enabled salvaging on DNS
• Performed system restore on the client
• Disabled the firewall on the client.
• Ran SFC /scannow

One very odd aspect of this problem is that if I reboot the server then the client connects to it without issue, for about a day. I have to reboot the entire server, and not just the DNS service.

It is just happening to one client. Is there any suggestions that you'd have that I can try?

Access share folder with error: No network provider accepted the given network path

January 11, 2013, 1:09 am

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My workstation have WIN and DNS but still cannot access \\servername\share with error message "No network provider accepted the given network path", but it work on ip address plus other servername.   example\\10.20.10.1\share it open with no error. \\servername\share open with error No network provider accepted the given network path. \\name\share open no error too.  why ?  note: servername:10.20.10.1 and name:10.20.10.1 too.

Thank you,

Reg,

wcnw

Shadow Copy... Setup and working on server... Issues with access from other servers/machines

January 29, 2013, 1:54 pm

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I need to get shadow copy working for a mapped drive we have setup for everyone.  The server which we map the drive to is a Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32 bit)  file server.  It's a NTFS share also.  If I'm logged on the server, I can see the shadow copies from the "Shadow Copies" tab but I cannot see anything from the "previous versions" tab.  It says "there are no previous versions available" from this server and from any Windows 7, windows 2007, or Windows 2008 machine. 

What is weird though is I can see the information from a Windows 2003 machine if I access it from via the UNC.  It's all there and working perfect! It does not work from a windows 2003 machine though if I access it via the drive letter.  Again it says "there are no previous versions available."  Any help would be much appreciated.\

Regards

All DFS namespaces created with dfsutil not visible in GUI

January 29, 2013, 10:58 pm

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I create a new namespace like this: dfsutil root addDom \\$ComputerName\$Namespace $Description

And can verify the namespace exisits in "Sharing and Storage Management", but it never appears in the DFS console and if I have to remove it I have to use "Dfsutil.exe /remftroot /share:DfsNameSpaceShare /Server:NameofServer"

Is this by design or am I missing something? It doesn't make sense.