Windows 2008 R2 server stops responding to SMB2 Command: NegotiateProtocol
Hi We have a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601) serving as file server. Clients are Windows XP and Windows 7.The files are being served happily and all of a sudden the server...
View Articlemultipathing for windows 2008 r2
Dear I have enabled multipathing for my windows 2008 r2 server using LUN's from my Hitachi SAN , however my server displays all the LUNS *2 in device manager, and even in in disk management it shows...
View ArticleMissing VSS System Writer and CAPI2 error in Event Log
Hello, I'm having problems with making full system backup of Windows 2008 R2 x64. It looks like this is related to missing VSS System Writer. When I'm running command "vssadmin list writers" there is...
View ArticleVSS writers are in Waiting for completion state
Hi All,We have Win2003 R2, running NTbackup for data and System State, and it started skipping multiple files.We checked VSS writers and a lot of them are in Waiting for completion state.Here is result...
View ArticleVSS kind of working on Server 2003 Cluster
Hello, I am chasing a strange VSS issue. I have a two node Cluster running Server 2003 Ent Ed 64 bit. There are 6 shared drives on it with three having volume shadow copy configured. There is one...
View ArticleHow to reinstall print spooler service
HiI have a windows XP printer with an HP printer attached to it. 99% of the times I have to restart the computer (restart the spooler service) to get the printer to print. I have downloaded the latest...
View Articlepermissions on domain controller file server change when connected to another...
I attached some iscsi targets to move data from a 2008R2 server to 2012 server and the permissions were all set to the 2012 local users & local admins groups. ( I did not have the 2 servers...
View ArticleDFS file server and ntfs perm.
i set up a DFS file server.At this point it looks like that users get access denied to folders if they are set it up through ntfs -> security tab.If i add users to local admins it works fine.Am i...
View ArticleDFS Root Scalability Query
Hi all,I have a query, I have raided the many documents surrounding DFS to no avail.One of my clients had over 2000 DFS roots (Please note the Root). They have been using roots instead of links since...
View ArticleDFS question
Hi,I am involve in a discussion, at our IT department, about DFS, below is our DFS setup:STORE01 (Server 2008 R2), 1x ISCI (500GB) volume mounted as drive E: contains a sharedfolder called DATASTORE02...
View ArticleProposal: NTFS standard cluster size
Hello,historically, there were 4 standard cluster sizes on NTFS volumes:0,5 kB on volumes smaller than 0,5 GB (allows up to 2 TB)1 kB on volumes larger than 0,5 GB (allows up to 4 TB)2 kB on volumes...
View ArticleBlock UNC to DC's for some users
Hello,I am trying to stop users from being able to UNC into a Windows 2008 server.I want to allow a certain group to be able to UNC into that particular server.I was thinking using a GPO, but I was not...
View ArticleFolders and files
I am trying to identify a complete list of folders, subfolders, files, owner of files, creation date, file type, size last accessed date. I have tried via dos however some of the folders exceed 250...
View Articlemove existing DFS server to a new domain
HiWe have a DFS server which is member of DomainA. We are moving all the users and computers to another domain called DomainB. I need to add this DFS server to the new domain (DomainB) and match the...
View ArticleWhich drive in a 'failed redundancy' mirror has the current data?
I have a 'failed redundancy' status on my Win2K8 mirrored C: volume, even though the drives (0 and 1) are both 'Online'. The volume does not have the 'At Risk' sub-status.Rather than re-activate the...
View ArticleAudit Object Access generating too much stuff
Hello I'm trying to setup file auditing for specific files/folders/shares on a file server. When I turn on object access auditing I get event ID's for every file/folder that anyone accesses in the...
View ArticleFile/Storage Errors in Server 2012
HiWe are running Server 2012 (proper, downloaded from licensing portal) and are using it as an NFS server for some of our VM Ware machines.Yesterday the NFS storage went offline for approx. 15 minutes,...
View ArticleFile Screens for large JPG files
Is it possible to create a File Sreen Filter which checks for the size of a JPG file and if it's bigger then 1MB automaticaly resize the file?is it possible to do this with the "Run this command or...
View ArticleDFS replication fails on new file server
Hi all. I brought up a new Server 2012 file server this weekend (FS2012) and setup a DFS connection to a branch server (FS2008). Everything replicated from FS2008 to FS2012, however new files and new...
View ArticleDFS Access Issues
I'm having problems with a DFS Namespace I'm trying to deploy.DFS Servers are 2003 R2 Virtual Servers running on a 2008 R2 Server cluster. DFS Namespace is domain based.Clients OS: Windows Vista, XP...
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