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  • Friday, November 06, 2009 3:21 PMswensc Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I have setup a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster with two nodes.  I have then setup two clustered applications on this cluster, one called testprinters for printing and once called testDHCP for DHCP.  I need to add a shared folder to the testprinters application, but have been having trouble.  I run throught the Provision a Shared Folder Wizard,  but in the end it errors out with "New SMB shared folder cannot be created.  The cluster resource could not be found."  If I do the same thing on the testDHCP application, I can create the shared folder with no problems.  I have deleted the testprinters application and have recreated it.

    What resource is it not finding?  The clusters and clustered apps work perfectly, except for me not being able to create a file share for the testprinters application. 
     

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  • Friday, November 06, 2009 3:25 PMTome Tanasovski Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Have you read through this?
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947051
     
  • Friday, November 06, 2009 3:29 PMEBAM Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi Swencs,

    I dont have the solution to our issues but i was wondering if your installation was on physical or virtual machines,
    the problem that i am have involves the valdation of my nodes, i keep getting the error that i need to install failover cluster to the nodes, and clustering tools has been installed.
    Please help me if you can
     
  • Friday, November 06, 2009 3:37 PMswensc Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Yeah, I read through that KB article.  The resolution is "To resolve this issue, make sure that the physical disk resource is a member of the Highly Available Application or Services group in the cluster that already has a Client Access Point (CAP) configured. Also, make sure that the status of the physical disk resource is "Online."

    The disk is part of the printer resource I created and it is working for that part.  I can install printers and and the failover works.

    Do I need to check something else?
     
  • Friday, November 06, 2009 7:35 PMswensc Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    I ended up just deleting the clustered applications and cluster.  Then I recreated them all and I was able to create the file share.