Portmap service will not start
Portmap service will not start with the WIN32_EXIT_CODE 31. The exit code means “A device attached to the system is not functioning.” but it is not clear which device. There is no warning or error seen...
View ArticleDFS-R after server reboot no longer in sync
Hello,I am trying to keep 2 servers in sync with DFS-R. This worked for quite some time. But after a server reboot a couple of days ago the sync doesn't work anymore.I have done a "force...
View ArticleFolder Redirection Group Policy change not applying to all users on all...
I have had Folder Redirection (Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, and Favorites) working fine for years now in an environment with a 2008 file server (no DFS) and mixed Vista/Win7 clients. I recently...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 Shadow Copies - Failed to retrieve volumes that are eligible...
On more than one of our Server 2008 R2 servers, when opening the Disk Management console and going to the properties of our volume housing shared folders, I am unable to configure Shadow Copies due to...
View ArticleThe IO operation at logical block address # for Disk # was retried
Hello everyone,A warning appears in the system log: === Log Name: System Source: disk Date: 2/20/2013 1:00:28 PM Event ID: 153 Task Category: None Level: Warning...
View ArticleDFS not replicating all files?
I have an old Windows Server 2003 R2 file server that I want to replace with a Windows Server 2008 server.I have setup a test DFS replication from one directory on the 2003 server to the 2008...
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DFS + Dedup
Hi everybody.I have a Windows Server 2012 Std and two roles DFS + Deduplication. Disk K used for users files = 5.4 Tb.Domain users can successfully work with dfs shares (all works good). Also there is...
View ArticleDFS Folder sync problems
hii have a problem with a replicated folder on windows 2008 r2 server.there is about 200GB of data in the folder which should be replicated but it does not replicate and there is no backlog. the target...
View ArticleDFS folders are hidden when viewing locally on server, or via admin share.
I have two Windows Server 2008 servers setup with DFS replication. This was installed in July 2009 and has been working perfectly since that time. A few weeks ago I noticed that the replicated...
View ArticleCound not map network drive: Extended error has occurred
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...
View ArticlePermissions error
I have started at a new company. we have a domain that consists of 2 servers. One windows server 2008 r2 and one windows server 2003. All the Computers used to be off the domain. i started adding...
View ArticleUsing symbolic links in common file dialog
I was able to successfully use mklink to create a symbolic link to a folder on a shared folder. I can cd to the folder and I can browse the folder in Explorer with no problems. However when I...
View ArticleAccess Denied on DFS Share
I need some help wrapping my head around DFS security. It appears that users that don't have admin$ share access to my file servers don't have access to the DFS shared folders. they can...
View ArticlePort extended attribute to ReFS
My application stores 8~16 bytes in extended file attribute, I'd like to ask how to port this feature to ReFS. Does a file in ReFS have location to store such information? Thanks.
View ArticleUser Profile Disks and DFS replication
We're looking to replace a single, heavily used 2003 TS server--for performance, feature, and capacity reasons. Our users frequently have small amounts of data on their desktops/settings that we'd to...
View ArticleDFSR Initial Sync VERY slow.
I have a client site from which I want to DFS-R replicate the files to a Hub server at which I back them up.The client file system holds about 150GB of data.BackgroundClient: Windows 2008R2...
View ArticleNFS share root content not displayed
Hi,I'm having trouble with our Windows NFS server, running Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with SP1 and all updates applied. Most of the time, the clients that have the NFS share mounted can access and...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 - Extend Partition .. space not showing available
Good morning all -- have a question about extending a volume on Server 2008 R2. The volume is an iSCSI target using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator -- the iSCSI device is a Dell MD3000i.The volume was...
View ArticleFile Server Resource Manager to report on Active Directory Name instead of...
Hello,Reports work great but is there a way to have them report on the AD Name (John Doe) vs. Username (we have ID's like ABCD for each user)If this cannot be changed then need to convert all the...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 DFSR stop at midnght
We have a number of dfsr setups that sync two file servers with each other in a full mesh replication. There are just under 100 of these setups, and we seem to be having a strange issue with a few of...
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