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I am having multiple issues with Time Sync on my Domain and Workstations which i need to get to the bottom of.  After troubleshooting and testing I am stuck and Don't know how to proceed. I have tried to follow numerous articles and solutions...

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We would like to use DFS Replication in Windows 2008 Server Standard to replicate a user directory between two servers.  We would also like that direcotry to synchronize with a Windows XP machine (laptop) via VPN and over the internet.  Is...

I need to create a new linkt to my DFS system.  When I attempt to create the new link to a shared folder I get the following error message:

"The following error occurred while creating the DFS link:  Access is denied"

I get the same error...

I have a simple setup.

Two servers in two sites replicating 20 gigs of data.

They never did replicate except for a few files before stopping.

To troubleshoot, I did a dfsrdiag proptest and successfully replicated a file both ways. I saw...

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We have an SBS 2008 network where only Windows 7 and Vista clients get an error like the one in the attached image.

This has been happening ever since we migrated to SBS 2008 from 2003.

The following EE articles have been tried:...

I rebooted my HP server and now I keep getting this message every so often.... I am not to sure if its rebooting on its own or not now... But the message states this: System Information Agent: Health: Post errors were detected. One or more...

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Newby here to Experts Exchange - Just signed up.  I am really hoping you guys can help me.  Let me expain the issue quickly.

I have a HP DL380 G4 Packaged Cluster solution acting as a Active/Active File & Print Cluster.  It runs...

I'm writing a VB.NET app which needs access to read and write text files in a folder on a remote server.  While I could just map a drive letter on the local machine, this would give anyone who started up Explorer or My Computer access to this...

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 fitted with a Perc 3/Si SCSI RAID controller which is configured for a 16.49 GB RAID 5 container containing three 9 GB disks. At power up, the controller BIOS reports the container is in a critical state and pressing...

Hello Experts, I'm in need of some advise.

I have installed the following equipment:
- HP x3800 File Serving Gateway with 4 NIC's (2 teamed for iSCSI, 2 teamed for LAN)
- Cisco Catalyst switch, VLAN created for iSCSI traffic
- HP /...

Hi Experts,

I am trying to copy multiple files matching a pattern in a shared folder under sub-folders and want to copy the folders with the related files to a windows machine.

This is what i tried

foreach ($i in get-childitem...

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Can someone please explain how clients resolve a DFS root to a the actual server that the root points to? I can't find anything in DNS. How do clients even know which DFS server the roots ly on?

I recently moved DFS root from server1 to...

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I am trying to setup remote storage for my family members. I've setup SFTP in Freenas and all is working ok except that I am unable to control witch folders or directories users have access to. I've setup user accounts under groups...

I have a windows 2003 R2 SP2 server that I'm using as a file server to store user home drives.  The files are all stored on a LUN  on an equallogic PS400E array.  The server is using a QLOGIC QLE4060C iSCSI hba with SANsurfer iSCSI HBA Manager...

I've read all the posts about ports required.  I have 80/tcp, 23/tcp, and 2000/tcp,udp open on the firewall.

I can telnet in and open the web interface from outside the firewall.  When I try remote control, I get a blank/black screen in the...

I need to set roaming profile quotas but the 30mb limit fixed by Microsoft is a joke.   I'm not interesting in redirecting as most of the computers are laptops.  I can't set disk or folder limits for other reasons.  I have to backup all the...

I am getting the infamous "no network provider accepted the given network path" and have done alot of research but cannot get this resolved.

The server having the issue is a newly built 2008 server and I have another identical server to it...

Starting the last couple of days, I've stzrted to gtet the below error when trying to connect to my offices network shares.  I can't connect either typing in the UNC path or trying to map it.  I haven't had any problems before.  I'm running...

I want to forward Cisco switches and routers configurations backup files from Cisco Works LMS 3.2 to SNMP server. How can I forward the shadow directory (switch configuration files) in LMS 3.2 to TFTP server?  
LMS 3.2 is installed on Windows...

I need advice.  I have three Dell 2950 (fairly beefy) each one is a virtual host and has 28 Guests each - and growing!  In the event of a physical disaster (fire, theft, etc.), all I really need is one of the guests (from each host) to rebuild...

We have a DFS root that we have been using for a couple years.  I have been using Windows 7 for a few months now without any problems.  A few days ago I noticed that I had lost a couple mapped drives, both of which were using a DFS link.  I...

I have 2 forests connected via a Site to Site VPN tunnel over a WAN link. A trusted connection has been created between the 2 forests.

In one for the forest, I have a DFS (Distributed File System) with is working properly. Clients in the...

We are getting an application event that keeps showing up on our windows 2003 server.
Faulting application cscript.exe, version 5.6.0.8832, faulting module sqlsvc.dll, version 2000.80.382.0, fault address 0x0000528a.

Anyone have any...

Currently using Hamachi to hook up a company file server to different remote offices.

File transfer and directory browsing is quite slow... average connection speed is around 2Mbps.

Curious... would OpenVPN give me better throughput than...

I would like to communicate to FTPs server from one of the Linux client, from the man pages I could see lftp but I don't know the arguments for the same; Is there any other way to communicate to FTPs server. please let me know

I am trying to set up DFS between a windows 2003 R2 server and a windows 2003 server. Everything is fine on the R2 server but the 2003 server does not have DFS installed. "Manage your server" says file server services are installed which should...

I am about to setup my office network and I am about to buy a 300 m bulk CAT 6 cable. There are some details on these cable I do not understand. What is STP, FTP, UTP +++ for the CAT 6? What is best?

I am trying to locate the hard drive for a Panasonic Toughbook CF-30. I have searched the Interent and haven't been able to come up with anything. I have seen where some models have hdd under the keyboard. Not sure if the CF-30 is that way or...

I have a DFS namespace that contains a root target pointing to a server that no longer exists.  When I try to delete the target from DFS management, I receive the following error:

The following error occurred during deleting the DFS root on...

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We have a client running a workstation with windows 7 and a server with 2008 Server
We loading the Interbase Server 7.5 on the 2008 server and a 32 Bit BDE
On the workstation we loaded Interbase Client and BDE
The program on the...

Dear All.

In a customers network we have configered 2 file servers who are located at 2 distant locations.
Both fileservers are part of the same domain and can reach each-other through a vpn connection.
On both sides users are connecting to...

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From few weeks we ago we start facing problems in our file server its starting showing error message while we attempt to check the sharing in the server by typing
\\servername in RUN prompt the error message says The Specified...

I've been trying all morning to connect one of these 250GB Buffalo Linkstation devices to the Active Directory domain here. It is going to (eventually) be situated in a separate building over a wireless link for a backup of our servers. The NAS...

Ok this all started when we bought a LaCie Ethernet Big Disk (NAS) for this network.

Installed Backup exec 11d and created a Backup-To-Disk folder and ran test backups to the LaCie.
Each backup would fail and the time and byte count always...

I am using a script to map drives
 simple example
net use x: \\server\sharedfolder
however the name of my shared folder has a space i.e. "\\server\my documents"
Therefore my script of would look like this (this is only an example)
net use x:...

Hi,

We have a serious problem with duplicate files on our main file server. I ran a report and almost 30% of the space on our main storage array is taken up by duplicate files.

Have any of you used or can recommend a good, stable,...

We have a small office network (2 Macs, 3 PCs and a Thecus N5200 Pro NAS). I have constant problems with Samba - I am an advanced user, not an IT guru, and premissions, copy/move/delete and access problems in the mixed Mac/PC environment are a...

Hello Everyone,

I'm wondering what Microsofts FSM tool does with files that exceed the math path limit. Does it still copy them? Or does it exclude them? Whats the best way to avoid this error and keep everything intact?

How to get a serial no of AIX server which we are accessing from remote ?

I have a kind of death domain controller that can not communicated with other domain controller. I want to remove it for active directory but when I ran dcpromo /forceremoval
it fail because it always want to update the data base it can't...

I use a login script to map network drives.

"Remove mappings

oNet.RemoveNetworkDrive "I:"
oNet.RemoveNetworkDrive "K:"
oNet.RemoveNetworkDrive "L:"
oNet.RemoveNetworkDrive "M:"
oNet.RemoveNetworkDrive "N:"
oNet.RemoveNetworkDrive "O:"...

Hello,
I have two domains and I need to migrate the file server from one domain to another on a different machine however I have to do this operation without using trust relationship.

I need a software which will list groups and users from...

I have an interesting task:

I need to move several folders from the old file server to the new file server. I have tried this by using a robocopy script, which has been somewhat successful. The problem lies in that the folder structure has...

A powerpoint 2007 file won't open off my samba share. Just installed Samba 4 Alpha12 and most things work great. Word and Excel files in same folders open OK.
PowerPoint file stops with message "PowerPoint was unable to open or save this...

We are looking to upgrade our network to accommodate a growing network.  I am looking to purchase two rack mounted servers and separate Exchange and Active Directory.  These servers will be integrated with a larger parent network.  

What...

I have a Windows 2003 server connecting via CIFS to a Sun S7310 Unified Storage System.  I am trying to tune the server for optimal throughput over CIFS to this new storage system.  The server is also directly connected to an EMC Clariion array...

We are in the process of moving our DFS share to a new server. I am trying to delete a link on the current DFS namespace and keep getting an access denied message. We are changing the name of the namespace and I was able to add a link/target on...

I'm not able to conncet this device into the AD (Windows Server 2008) from its WebInterface!
The following lines are from the LOG within the WebInterface:

LG-NAS root: [SET_DOMAIN] RESULT=2: Execution fail Wrong ID/PW
Jan 8 14:12:25 LG-NAS...

I have a user who continually gets his account locked out in Active Directory.
I know it is not the policy as we have the default domain policy applying to all users including him.
I know it is not his machine as we junked his old one and...

Hi
I've spent this weekend moving to Windows 7 (And will say I LOVE IT).

Albeit at the moment the trouble I'm having wiht offline file synchronisation.

I used the feature in Vista fine generally. I had my main bulk of files stored on a...

I have a 2003 server that is being used as a print server.  If it goes down is there a way or what can I backup that once i rebuild the server i then can restore it so i don't have to rebuild all the printers.

Hi,
I have netapps ip based filer. I have mounted the NFS volume created on the netapps filer on the Linux server using NFS. I need to enable quota on this mount point.Please let me know how to enable quota for NFS mount.
Thanks.
Naseer.

Good day,
We recently transfered all our user files from a Windows Server 2003 NAS to a new Windows Server 2008 storage server. One problem we have been experiencing is with an apparent change in the way certain permissions are handled. We have...

Hi Experts,

We have a Dell MD3000i iSCSI SAN about to go into production. Alongside it are a Dell PE 2900, a new PE R610, and an ibm x3650 running ESX 4 (standalone, not part of a VMware farm).

The two PowerEdge's are Win 2008 Standard. The...

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   I have 2 windows 2008 servers that i want enable dfs replication. I have created dfs it is name servers are on 2003 server but the 2 sfile ervers are 2008 replicating. I have enable read only replicating on one of the file servers as it...

I am pulling my hair out on this one.  I am trying to set up disk notifications using a simple .vbs script I have written that simply pops up a message box.  I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get this working within the quota...

I currently have a Windows 7 Professional x64 bit PC that was once able to connect to \\domain\root, but after a reboot says windows can't access \\domain\root.  This works for all other machines within the network except this one.  Here are some...

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I need a step by step help here please. We have a 2008 File server and the permission setup is very strange compared to 2003 server. We need some help.

I have a main root folder called Company which needs to be shared so everyone...

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I have inherited a system with a new client of mine.  The physical machine is running Server 2008 w/HyperV.  SBS 2003 Service Pack 2 is running on the HyperV virtual machine.  All appears to be OK, but.....
When I go into Server...

Hi there,

One of my PCs goes frequently offline, as reported in the system tray. In such case, I am unable to connect to the server. I still have Internet access during the offline period. Therefore, is definitely not a hardware problem. Even...

What is the difference between pull scanning and push scanning

We are migrating from Netware to Windows Active Directory and all machines are XP - most running 4.90 or 4.91 netware clients.

Is there any easy way to uninstall or disable the Netware client using Group Policy in AD so we don't have to...

Hello,
my Server 2008 Stardard is a workgroup server (NOT domain). for some reasons I cannot map to the shared folder, I can ping fine, I can see the shared folder in the network computers.
the File Sharing is turn on.
the user even has full...

Hello All,

Recently I setup roaming profiles for our terminal server users and I have a very annoying issue. When any of the users with roaming profile login to a terminal server and try to open any application from Start Menu they receive the...

We just installed Slackware 12 on a new Dell server. 500GB primary partition. Within two weeks, it's full. Don't know why. Trying to find the offending file(s) I logged in as root and did:

root@myserver:/# df -h /
Filesystem            Size ...

I have 2 Windows 2003 R2 Servers. (FS1 and FS2)
I have created a couple of successful (Test/Dev) DFS Replication Groups active between the Primary (FS1) and the Secondary (FS2). However, when I attempt to add the production DFS Rep it *always*...

My company has about 40 remote locations.  The locations without IT staff have one server for file/print services.  We recently setup DFS at these sites to replicate data between a file server here and all of the remote office servers.  This is...

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  I am getting these error in the /var/adm/messages file on my ftp server
aug 01 05:49:00 xxxxxxx nfs: [ID 664466 kern.notice] NFS getattr failed for server abc.xy.com: error 5 (RPC: Timed out)
aug 01 12:59:31 xxxxxxx nfs: [ID 664466...

The top command on our RHEL4 server shows our CPU in WA (wait) state for about 50% of the time. I guess this is caused by one of several NFS mounted volumes. How do I determine exactly which device and which of the user processes causing this...

VMWare uses a stripped down version of Linux and an NFS server is not available.  Without the use (or availability) of other unix machines, is there a fairly easy way to transfer large (5GB to 12GB) files from one VMWare machine to another?  
...

We are assembling a Windows Server 2008 R2 file server environment.  We have some questions about access based enumeration and file share configuration:
1. Are there any gotchas to using ABE with DFS?  Is anyone using it in this configuration...

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

Users get the following error message when trying to connect to the network drives:-
P\: is not accessible
Not enough server storage is available to process this command

The error Event ID 2020 appears...

I'm in need of a simple way of setting the following on a folder. The procedure I use in the GUI is as follows::

- Stop inheritance but copy all the rights
- Remove "Users" group
- Add "Z USERS" to the ACL with everything but full control
...

Hi there,

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium.  I have a netgear router for my home network.  I have 3 laptops all connecting to the internet through this router, however the physical computer cannot connect.  I cannot even ping the router...

I currently have the following:
Dell poweredge 2650 running ESX server
750Gb (RAID 5) NFS/iSCSI server using "openfiler/similar"
            - Asus M/b - E4300 1.8ghz
            - 2gb Ram
            - gigabit nic
Gigabit switch
Cat 5e/6...

I have some some issues with DFS and believe that sites and services may not be configured correclty.  Clients occasionally connect to servers outside of their corresponding site which then takes them accross the WAN.

I know that DFS depends...

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I am configuring a Windows 20087 Standard Server on a Dell Poweredge R510.  I would like to have both nic's share the same IP in fault tolerance i the event I lose a switch or switch port.   Is it possible?   And how can I go about...

I have a server that crashed and i have done a repair install of windows 2003 server over the top and ths has fixed the original orror "lsass.exe error object not found" but i now cant get the server service to start i get the error "The server...

My situation is this:

Old domain:
2x old HP servers with a whole 80GB worth of storage and data.

New domain:
1x DL100G2 with 800GB of free space
1x VM with a SAN.

Prior to this users had no home folders and the old HP servers were...

How can i hide the UNC path from Mapped Drives, example i only want the drive letter, and the name of my share.

Hello,

We have two servers running Srv 2003 R2. We have setup replication and a namespace for three shared folders between the two servers. The two servers are on different sites. All client would usually only connect to Server1 as it is...

I know that in Windows networking when you delete a file or folder on a shared network resource it does not go to the recycle bin and unless you have a backup or VSS enabled the data is lost forever.

I'm looking for a third party app or...

Hi,

I recently setup DFS Management using the Replication Group Wizard.  I selected "Replication Group for Data Collection".  I then selected some random files on our Chicago site server to be replicated to our Atlanta site server.  But when I...

I have a requirement to access data via SFTP on a daily basis, the problem is I'm not sure how to do this through a proxy server.

I'm using a FileZilla (windows XP) client to facilitate the connection. I set up a connection as:
...

Greetings experts,

I have a windows 2008 server with multiple share and data folders on it. I want to create some NTFS access to prevent accidental deletion of subfolder / files.

My user should be able to create, copy, modify and delete...

I really need to get DFS working and I cannot figure out why I continue to get this error.  I have deconstructed and reconstructed the namespace but continue to get this error and not getting the benefits of replication:

Event Type:      Error...

Windows 2003 Server R2 with SP2 Standard edition 32bit.

When i try to connect to FSRM i have the following error:

Unable to connect to the file server resource manager service on computer \\beauty. The file Server Resource manager service...

Hey all!,

We've recently installed a windows 2008 x64 server at our second location.  This is the only server at the location.  We have T1's between our first and second locations.  Our first location has one large file server, however Instead...

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2650 fitted with a Perc 3/Si SCSI RAID controller which is configured for a 67.79 GB RAID 5 container containing three  36 GB disks.
While booting I get this message:
The following containers have missing members and are...

Clients Win XP Pro SP 3 Dell Inspiron 530 w/integrated NIC and 4gb RAM, Server Win 2003 for Small Business.
Clients are losing connectivity to Sage Masterbuilder due to the following errors being logged on client's Event Viewer
Userenv, Event...

I have a Power Mac G5 with 2 GB Ethernet ports. One is connected to our Gigabit LAN and the other is directly connected to the NAS (Thecus N5200 Pro - the version with 2 GB Ethernet ports for Link Aggregation).

I want to increase the data...

We are trying to setup a shared folder on a Server 2008 Web Edition server that would be accessible to setup as a mapped drive over a VPN from a Server 2008 Standard Edition server.  We have done this with Standard-Standard before, but...

I would be grateful for some clarification and advice - I am in the process of planning to use Outlook Mobile Access and then Remote Web Workplace on my SBS 2003 server (1 NIC), which has 5 client computers.

My setup is a Netgear DG834G...

Hello Xperts

I have Server with Win2k8 standard edition on it that I need to setup FTP or VPN "Which is easier" on it in order to give access to our staff on different sites to be able to reach to it.

I was able to setup a DynDNS account...

WebDAV is a network file system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV

I am looking for a *simple* and *light* WebDAV server.
I don't wish to install a complex solution, such as Apache, Tomcat or IIS.

I have found one possibility:...

We have users at 3 separate sites that are connected via VPN that need to collaborate on large files 50+ in near real time.  I'm looking for an enterprise level file sync solution that will allow me to sync about 10 GB of data on 3 Windows 2008...

Looking for an online backup service(backup/file server) that not only backs up the data but we can actually work on the data(excel sheets, word documents, pdf's) directly on the servers.  We use Ibackup and their backup's are slow and cannot...

Hi,

I am looking to copy a bunch of Folders and Files within folders and would like to be able to preserve the date modified values.

They are currently on a Windows 2003 filesystem.

I have tried tools such as Winrar however it only seems...