Network shares becoming unavailiable intermittently
Hi!It drives me mad. Our Win 2008 Server was working fine for years. But recently, clients intermittently lose connection to its network shares. This often happens when Office documents are open and...
View ArticleDFS replicates some reparse points but not others
Hi,I am using DFS Replication between 2 systems running Windows Storage Server 2003 Service Pack 2. On the source system, the application files (*.EXE) to be replicated are stubbed (set to a 4KB...
View ArticleQuery regarding Windows Server 2008 R2 and Encrypting File System (EFS)
A client has required all business data stored on server must be encrypted but still must be shared within the company. How is this accomplished?Thanks, Tom Morris
View Articlewhat happens when you move folders between DFSR groups 2008R2
I have DFS namespace with multiple DFSR groups across a number of servers. The files themselves may live on the same drive on the servers.I was wondering how DFS(R) handles the movement of folders, if...
View ArticleNFS Client performance goes down at intervals
I set up a NFS client service on windows 2008 Server R2 standard edition, using GID/UID in registry. My application can read/write files on remote Linux NFS server. But the bad news is that: every...
View ArticleWindows search is not functioning properly
I'm having strange results when searching in Windows.For example i have a textfile called werkplek.txt When i search for werkplek it won't find the file. But when i search for werkple it does find the...
View ArticleDestination Folder Access Denied - when trying to copy a file
OK I'm frustrated. I have a Windows 2008 server (not R2). I created a new folder on the J: drive.I want to copy one EXE file over to and it will not let me it says:"Destination Folder Acces DeniedYou...
View ArticleHow to prevent users not to create folders/file path exceeding 260 Chars
Is there a registry edit/ group policy or any setting in Windows 2008 R2 to prevent users not to create folders/file path exceeding 260 Chars. Any third party tool is also welcome which give warning or...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Deduplication issue with shares / mapped drives
Hi everyone, wondering if anyone can shed some light on my issue.Scenario, have a fileserver which was recently upgraded (in-place) to Windows 2012. It's primary role is just to keep a backup of...
View ArticleNTFS permissions not inherited to files (google drive folder)
I have a server 2003 R2 with Google drive application installed.The google drive service syncs all my files to a local folder on the server.Problem is that with files that are synced from the cloud the...
View ArticleI am having an issue with sharing folders on Windows Server.
So far sharing folders to another user , I have to use the windows login password to access the folderHow to use another login password, if i want the user to access but I do not want to create another...
View ArticleUSB Drive Read Only
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit on an Intel HP Pavilion dv6. I have a PNY 16 GB USB drive that is now useless because it has somehow become "read only". Did this happen with bitlocker?...
View ArticleNTFS Error event 55
HiI've got an ongoing NTFS error being logged on a server and cannot bottom it outHardware raid 6 array, split into two volumes, both volumes periodically display the error (both are home drive...
View ArticleFolder Permission for Individual User - Override "Everyone" group
Im using Windows File Server in Server 2008On our share drive the user group "Everyone" and "Domain Users" have write access... well, I'd like to limit one specific user to Read Only access.I have...
View ArticleNTFS Permissions oddity
I have a user that can assume full control and ownership on a file by just editing it on a mac, but cannot do it on a windows system.The file is share out from a folder that is 3 level deep and each...
View ArticleiSCSI Target Device Lost
I have a windows 2012 server with an iSCSI connection to a windows 2008 R2 Storage server. The connection has been working properly for a month or so now, but for some reason I can no longer see the...
View ArticleDFS: Mounting subfolder into an already mounted folder
Hi All,I am hoping this is possible. In my DFS root I have mounted a folder called "Departments". It has a whole list of folders in it (as you guess it, for different departments)....
View ArticleFile Replication and 2008 R2 standard
I set up Replication between two servers All worked fine, I then disabled the replication (changed a file) and then enabled the replication. Now if I update the files they are not replicatiing.If I run...
View Articledfsutil set active targetset
When I run dfsutil /pktinfo on contoso1 server I get:Entry: \contoso1\share\IT ShortEntry: \contoso1\share\IT Expires in 0 seconds UseCount: 0 Type:0x8001 ( DFS FAILBACK_ENABLED )...
View Article*.TMP Files Being Left Behind, Problems Saving - Server 2008
When we save NEW files (Office and other file types) to a folder on our server, we randomly get a message that the file already exists and can't be saved. The server then saves a file with 0kb, but...
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