File Services and Storage Forum

Restore fails on windows server 2008 r2

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:15:07 Z

Hi,
I built a server and then backed it up to an external harddrive.
I scratched the server and rebuilt it again from media. I then tried to restore using the backup on an external harddrive. I get the error "the backup location specified does not contain any backup. specify another backup location. I can see a directory called e:\windowsImageBackup. in-it is a file called media id and two directories. Catalog has two files "BackupGlobalCatalog" and "GlobalCatalog" there is also a folder called Backup 2009-10-27 010547 in-it are two VHDs.

However the restore fails. Any advice? I renamed the machine to be the same as the directory name but that did nto help.

DFSR Service Crashing Frequently & Erroneous Sharing Violations

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:53:41 Z

We've got two 2008 R2 servers with DFS running and one replicated folder. I've been having trouble with one of them. The DFSR service seems to be crashing as often as every 20 mintues at which point it begins to do lots of read/write I/O presumably to rebuild the database. Some times it might go a few hours without crashing. In any case, it has died 50 times in the last four days. On the other system, it hasn't crashed once in days.

I also (perhaps unrelated, perhaps not) have received thousands of sharing violation errors. They don't appear to go away, and any time I manually inspect a file reported as a sharing violation, it has always been replicated already. I have to clear the event log to get the violations to clear out of the health reports.

Are there any common causes for this? Is there anything I can try which might alleviate the problem without rebuilding the box entirely?

Thank you for your time.

Addition:

Faulting modules always appear to be DFSRs.exe or ntdll.dll.

Faulting application name: DFSRs.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc447
Faulting module name: DFSRs.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc447
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000328d26
Faulting process id: 0x43b0
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca6e1d449546b4
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\DFSRs.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\DFSRs.exe
Report Id: 5815e9a1-da13-11de-8c0c-001517ccf0a1

Faulting application name: DFSRs.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc447
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5be02b
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x00000000000c6cd2
Faulting process id: 0x4fd8
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca6e203e4fffc2
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\DFSRs.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 8ea04a2f-da16-11de-8c0c-001517ccf0a1

How to Get More Details on CHKDSK Errors

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:14:24 Z

When chkdsk reports errors and gives only hexadecimal identifiers for the files it found errors with, is there a way to find out what specific files and folders have been affected?

For example, the following error:
Cleaning up instance tags for file 0xb4401.

Is there a way to know what file 0xb4401 is?

Thanks!

- Tom

Windows 2003 Active Directory Restore

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:23:14 Z

I am testing our DR plan and I have the system state backup our physical domain controller. I created a virtual machine with the same amount of hard drive space and tried to restore the system state in directory services mode but it reboots and hangs at the Windows Server 2003 server progress bar.. I've left it for a hour and it won't boot.

I followed this document during my restore process
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758435%28WS.10%29.aspx

Any ideas?

Diagnosing Repeated CHKDSK Errors

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:00:00 Z

Hello all!

We have a variety of servers running Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2. On two -- and only two -- of them we are having a problem with chkdsk repeatedly finding errors with the file system.

We have an automated script that runs a read-only chkdsk on each of our servers on a daily basis as a precautionary measure, due to file system corruption we experienced once in the past. On most of our servers, it routinely finds no problems. However, on these two, it repeatedly finds errors. When it does, we will take the server offline and run a full chkdsk allowing it to fix the errors. And then run another chkdsk afterward to verify that the errors are gone. And it always shows "clean." But then within a couple of days they come back.

I have done extensive hardware diagnostics to verify that there are no failures happening with the system hardware that could be leading to these problems, and they all report clean. In addition, the fact that this is two separate servers leads me to think it unlikely that we have two simultaneous hardware failures on two separate servers that are going undetected.

There is a commonality between these two servers however. They are both involved in a nightly data processing process that writes a great deal of data to both servers. That leads me to suspect that something is happening during this process that is causing corruption in the file system. But with just a generic "errors were found" output from chkdsk, it's hard to know where to start looking in tracking down the problem.

Can anyone offer some advice on either how to pry more information out of chkdsk on the specific files, folders, etc. that are showing errors or inconsistencies? Or perhaps recommend a third-party tool that could provide more information on problems the file system has? (These are NTFS volumes, BTW, and we are not doing surface scans for bad sectors during this process.)

Does anyone have any more general thoughts on possible causes for repeated errors such as these?

Thanks so much!

- Tom

Long delay mounting (large?) volume on W2K3 cluster

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:21:29 Z

Hello there,

running a 2 node failover cluster on Windows 2003 Ent. R2 SP2, some volumes have a long delay until mounting succedes.
The default timeout (180 seconds) is no longer enough for one volume to get online. A value of 300 seconds seems to be OK for the cluster - yet not for the users :-|

KB969352 seems to address the problem. Unfortunately, there is no definition of "large volumes".
The volume has a size of 1,63 TB, approximately 80% used disk space.
Another slightly smaller volume (1,36 TB, approx. 80% in use) is getting online in less than 180 seconds.

Regards,
Timo

PS: Does anybody know, how to determine the size of $bitmap for an NTFS volume?

Windows 2008 cannot access mirrored volumes (RAID1)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:42:18 Z

Hi,

// English is not my native language and Windows 2008 Standard is polish edition - so some phases can different.

OS: Windows 2008 Standard x64 Polish SP2
I set-up mirroring on 2 physical discs (converted to dynamic discs). Both are Seagate 500GB splited to 2 partitions:
1st is C: - (system, boot, pagefile, crash dump) NTFS partition, 100MB
2nd is D: - (users data) NTFS partition, ~380GB
Disks were connected to SATA controller, but working in IDE (legacy) mode.
Mirror was synced (for 100%) for both partitions, both discs were available and without badsectors.

I detached (in computer case) one of discs (eg. 1) and tried to startup server. It looks like it is working - I can login, but cannot access D: partition. In Disk Manager I saw "!", that this partition is not working correctly - it doesn't have also assigned letter.
There was no chance to attach/access/get access D:.
Ok, maybe this mirrored disk is damaged.

I turned off server, detached 1st disk, attached 2nd and started system.
The same situation - C: is fully working, D: does not exist and is not accessible.

I turned off server, attached both disks (in the same order as at the beginning). Started server - shock - both partitions are visible, accessible and working correctly.

Ok, maybe something is damaged with this mirror - I removed mirroring, so I have 2 copies (working copies) of C: and D: - system was working on 1 disk. I created again mirroring (in the same way as previously).
After full sync, the same problem - system is starting from 1 drive, C: is visible and working, D: does not exist and cannot be accessed.

I thought this is connected with HPA (Host Protected Area) on one of disks - and second partition ends beyond disk.

I installed new system from the scratch - new system on new (other) pair of disks (also Seagate 500GB but other models).
I changed SATA mode in BIOS to native (AHCI).
Installed OS (Windows 2008 Server PL x64 without SP - I have such DVDs) on single disk, but both were connected.
Partition layout:
C: 100MB
D: 370MB
(unused) ~11MB
Next I installed SP2, all updates from WU, and after that I created mirror - for C: partition and for D: partition.
After sync, I tried to test this mirror - the same problem as above - C: is working correctly, D: does not exist and is not accessible.

What the ____ is going on?
Does mirror work on Windows 2008 or it is a fake?

Jack

Files not saving on a share

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:10:03 Z

I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 in another location that users save files to in multipule shares and have home directories on. Some users mostly the ones who use it the most are having a problem with saving files there. They save a new file and its fine but when they go to update the files such as a spreadsheet and click save and then close the files the file will automatically revert back to its previous version. Even a simple thing such as renaming the file can revert back. You rename the file and your screen blinks and it reverts back to the previous name. All of this only seems to happen to these users on the local network. I know on the network they are still actually using a hub along with 3 switches all daisy chained together. Could this be causing the problem or something else perhaps? Anybody ever seen this before?

Mapping of home share and dfs problem when binding Mac OS 10.6 to ws2008 AD

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:31:51 Z

Hi,

A customer of ours is running a Windows 2008 AD and they are using DFS to publish their home share and other common shares among the users when logging into to the system. This work fine for the XP, Vista and Windows 7 clients.

But with Mac OS 10.6.x clients which we have successfully binden to the AD using the integrated Directory Utility in Mac OS X we have som problems with automation of the connection to the published shares.

1. The Mac OS 10.6 users are able to logon to the ws2008 domain using their AD credentials at startup, this is fine.
2. No automatic home folder mapping of the current logged on AD-user on the Mac OS 10.6 is performed as we can see in the finder, though we have tried using both DFS share UNC path and direct server UNC path on the user account settings in AD. BUT we are able to perform manually SMB connections to these shares from the Mac client without having to authenticate once more, if we don't use DFS share mount for the users home shar ein AD. It's the automatic mapping of the home folder that doesn't work. How to fix this?
3. There seems to be some problem using DFS for Mac OS X clients when it comes to mount different shares, is there a incompatibility issue here?
4. Is there a known solution with users that already has a local profile on Mac OS X clients based on their firstname or lastname, and the problem with logon to to AD using the same type of account information?

Thanks for any help in advance regarding these issues.

Regards,
Richard

hard drive size differences - same make/model

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:06:39 Z

Let's say I buy two drives - same make model, same 'theoretical' size as per specifications of the drives. I format drive 1 with Windows 2003 let's say to create a C drive and get a certain size in properties of the drive. I then format drive 2 with the same Windows installation to create a D drive. Is it possible that the two drives could be slightly different as far as Windows is concerned after the formatting even though they were supposedly the same manufacturer raw size?

As far as the manufacturer raw size goes, regardless if they are exactly the same per manufacturer testing, is it possible that Windows might see two different raw sizes out of the box?

Finally as far as manufacturer raw size, is there a 'fudge' factor - e.g. same make/model drive but one has x bad blocks and the other has y bad blocks out of the box just because of the nature of manufacturing process so that they would report as different sizes with Windows?

DFS Test Environment

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:31:22 Z

Hi All,
I have the following Test Environment - 2 servers one running Server 2003 Std Ed, SP2 and One running Server 2003 Enterprise R2.

The problem is I can install the DFS service on the Std Ed server via the Manage Your Server snap-in.(Add Role etc.) but this option is not available on the Enterprise server although the File Server option is. The option to install the dfs service via add/remove windows components is not available either.

AD is installed on each in the same domain
Logged on as admin on both servers.

This works when both servers are Std Ed.

Any ideas?

Resizing Primary Partition in Windows Vista Business

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:53:39 Z

I would like to change the size of my primary partition to gain more space. May disk is divided into two partitions. Using Disk Management I can shrink my logical partition to create unallocated space but when I right click the primary partition I am not offerred the option of extending it. When I shrink the logical disk the unalloated space appears at the end of the drive therefore not "contiguous unallocated" space. I used to use Partition Magic 8 to resize partitions in XP and I was offerred the option to create space in the front of the drive or the back? What am I missing here?

File Server Resource Manager does not start

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:37 Z

I installed an educational volume license of Windows 2003 R2 server 64-bit Enterprise Edition on my hardware.
The CPU is an AMD Opteron Processor 254.
I applied all critical and security updates as well as Service Pack 2.
I installed then the File Server role that automatically installed the File Server Resource Manager, among other things, that I intend to use for volume based quota management.
However, the File Server Resource Manager does not start.
Under the System Event Viewer I noticed the following entry
Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7023
Description: The File Server Resource Manager service terminated with the following error:

The File Server Resource Manager is not a valid Win32 application.

The link for more information in the Help and Support center does not contain any information related to this issue.

I tried to start the service manually from the Services GUI and could not be started with
Error 193: 0xc1

A search found little about this problem and seems to be concentrated around 2 files
dfsext.dll and srmsvc.dll
The one article with the most detailed explanation can be found here
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=208655&messageID=2507988
Please see Post 6 of 7 titled "I figured this out"
If this is the problem I do not know how to get the proper files. However, most likely it does not apply to my case because it is talking about the X64 version of the dll included in the x86 distribution.

Another article I found interesting although not directly related to my problem was about error 193
http://www.brainlitter.com/archives/2006/07/error_193_0xc1.htm

Just as a reference these are the details about the two dll mentioned in the techrepublic post installed on my system.
They are both installed on C:\WINDOWS\System32.
Is this service a 32-bit application?

SRMSVC.DLL

Size: 3.22MB (3,381,258 bytes)
Size in Disk: 3.22 MB (3,383,296 bytes)
File Version: 5.2.3790.3959 (srv03_sp2_rtm.07216-1710)

DFSEXT.DLL

Size: 41.5 KB (42,496 bytes)
Size in Disk: 44.0 KB (45,056 bytes)
File Version: 5.2.3790.2075 (dnsrv_r2.051122-2350)

I would appreciate any information to help me solve this problem.

DFSRPrivate\ConflictandDeleted - Is it safe to delete

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:01:23 Z

Is it safe to delete the contents of DfsrPrivate\ConfilctandDeleted folder??? and how to delete the files properly???

.xls file doesn't get deleted---Any help on this really appreciated

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:24:15 Z

Hi Guys,

I have Windows Server 2003.
Role of this server is:-
*DHCP,DNS,Fileand Print Server
*Altris agent is installed on this and daily backup takes place on the other server.
*Contains Ms Office 2003
*Server is used by 20 users.
*Monthly server is patched.

The problem is one user is trying to delete and excel file which is kept at shared location but he is unable to delete it so he passed on this issue to me i tried out from server end but same error comes to me "File is used by some program so cn't be deleted".I also tried to rename but no go also tried to copy/cut but no go.
Only one solution to this problem is reboot and then the file can be deleted or else nope.

Am really fedup of this guys

Any kind of help appreciated.

Mapped network drives on office server suddenly report not enough storage

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:38:45 Z

Our office has been having a problem that started just in the past few weeks with our office server machine - an HP Proliant server running Windows Server 2003 with 2 HDD's set up with RAID 1 mirroring.

The server is set up with a domain and a logon script that runs when anyone logs on to a workstation with their domain user name. This logon script maps several folders on the server as network drives Z, Y, etc.

Every so often, maybe once a week, the server will suddenly report something like "Z is not accessible. Not enough server storage is available to process this command" when trying to access the Z drive, Y drive, etc on any workstation in the office.

If I call up these folders on the server itself, everything seems fine. In fact, the server reports nearly 2/3 of the HDD capacity still free, so we're nowhere near running short on storage space. It seems like the only way to remedy this issue is to reboot the server machine. After that, every workstation works as normal. Users don't even have to log off and log back on. Once the server is rebooted, all network drives can be accessed normally.

The main reason why this is an issue is that if a workstation has certain software running with certain files open that are stored on the server, that software will crash, even if we try to save the file to the local machine. So work is lost, no matter what happens, unless the server can be rebooted without trying to save the open files first.

Anyone ever experienced this before or know where to start? We do not have IT staff (very small office) which is why I'm asking here.

Receiving "SYSTEM ERROR - The procedure number is out of range" when running the dfsutil command

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:45:24 Z

OK,

Here is the problem

I can create namespaces to another dfsserver if the servers are the same version 2003 to 2003 or 2008 to 2008 however when I run the command from 2003 to 2008 I receive the error

Example

1. Run the command on dfsserverA 2003 to create a namespace on dfsserverB 2003
dfsutil /addstdroot /server:\\dfsserverB /share:Namspace1   (works fine)

2. Run the command on dfsserverA 2008 to create a namespace on dfsserverB 2008
dfsutil /addstdroot /server:\\dfsserverB /share:Namspace1   (works fine)

3. Run the command on dfsserverA 2003 to create a namespace on dfsserverB 2008
dfsutil /addstdroot /server:\\dfsserverB /share:Namspace1   (receive the error)

4. Run the command on dfsserverA 2008 to create a namespace on dfsserverB 2003
dfsutil /addstdroot /server:\\dfsserverB /share:Namspace1   (receive the error)

Why does this not work. Both servers are on the same domain Is the a compatibility issue between the RPC calls?? Please help. I can do this from the dfs manager UI without any issues.

Greg

xcacls.vbs syntax to view dir and ALL Sub dirs

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:36:39 Z

I can't find any syntax info out there on how to view the ACL's of a top level folder and all subfolders...I don't want to make ANY changes, I just want to view all the permissions...files don't matter, just the folder permissions from the top down.

Does anyone know the syntax for this????

I did try:

xcacls.vbs e:\toplevelfoldername\*.*

But this only gave me the top level and the second level only, no levels beneth...

I'm using Windows2003 server

Installing Server 2008 with a Partition larger than 2t. Raid 10 Mirrored

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:51:00 Z

Hi All,

Let me say first thanks for he help in advance.

what Im trying to do is to install Server 2008 on one large drive. 3.63T.

I have read quite a bit that it can be done but with no explicit instructions. referneces to MBT GBT ,ect.... Unfortunately this does not help me.

Simply Put when I am installing and get to the menu in regards to creating a partition I am limited to 2T and the rest is unnallocated and I am not able to extend or create another partition with that left over space.... It becomes useless.

I have installed Server on a primary partition of 2t with the rest of my 3.6t wasted to see if I could access it through the disk manager in windows.

I was unsuccesful in trying to make use of the rest of that space... It still shows as unallocated and all my options through the disk manager are grayed out.

can anyone please give me some clear instruction on how to make this 3.63t one large drive?

I know this sounds a little out there and its not common practice to have one large drive but I have some excellent reasons for doing this that are involved and would be long winded here in this conversation.

Ideally, it would be great to have one large drive = 3.63t

if not please tell me how to get server 2008 to recongnize the rest of it in multiple partitions.

During the installtion of server 2008 I tried to partition out the entire 3.63t but it would only allow me to partition out 2T with the rest being unallocated and unusable.

Again, thanks for reading my rant.
I am not familiar with partitions as I should be.

Thanks
JB

Huge DFS Bug?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:10:06 Z

1. Have a Windows 2003 server named server1 with a share named group. The server is a domain member
2. Create on a Windows 2008 SP2 server named server2 a new domain DFS root named group (as well)

From this moment, when a client (have tested WinXP, Sever 2008 and Windows 7) tries to access \\server1\group, the client connects to the DFS root created in step 2, and shows an empty directory!!!

When deleting the DFS root created in step 2 and try to access \\server1\group, I'm getting a network error 0x80070043, "the network name cannot be found". On a Windows 2008 server, running "dfsutil.exe cache referral flush" re-enables access to \\server1\group. There is no equivalent tool on Windows XP or Windows 7. These clients have to be restarted for getting access to \\server1\group again.

Have double checked all DNS- and WINS entries for server1 and server2. And I was able to reproduce exactly this behaviour in a completely different environment! (Have discovered this at a customers IT infrastructure, and could reproduce it to my great astonnishing at our internal site).

Have absolutely no idea what is happening here. Just saw in a network trace that server1 sends back a DFS referral to the client when the client tries to access \\server1\group, and when the DFS root with the same name than the share on server1 is in place. Thank you in advance for any advice and help.

Franz

Which One To Use For Performance? MPIO or MC/s?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:56:37 Z

Hi There,

I am new to setting this up so still learning and been doing lots of reading but I thought I would ask this question as I haven't found the answer yet!
Basically this is my enviroment:

1 x Sun 2510 Storage Array (SAN). 1 controller with 2 ISCI 1GB ports. These are connected on a private LAN.
1 x Sun Blade running with Windows Server 2008 R2. This has 2 NIC's. One connected to a public LAN and the other on the private LAN that the SAN is on.

I have the ISCI connections working and this is all good and performance is really good but I am wanting to know whether I should use MPIO or MC/s?
The Sun 2510 supports both and I would really like to take advantage of the 2 ISCI 1GB ports.

I have setup MC/s where I have one session with MC/s setup as round-robin for performance. I am under the impression that this will use both of the ISCSI ports and it will be load balanced?

Is there any advantage related to performance for me using MPIO? Looks more complicated.

Any information would grately help.

Cheers

Curious DFS/Namespace Behavior Regarding Physical File Locations

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:42 Z

I'm pretty new to DFS, so please forgive me if the answer is trivially obvious to those of you with more experience:

I've got a namespace and replication group set up on my domain between two servers. I'll genericize the names so that it's easier to follow the post.

Domain: DOMAIN
Namespace: \\DOMAIN\Public
Servers: SERVER1, SERVER2

Both servers are set up as namespace servers for that namespace such that there is \\SERVER1\Public and \\SERVER2\Public.

When a client accesses \\SERVER1\Public and creates a new file there, it is physically stored on SERVER2 first. It is then replicated over to SERVER1's hard drive. The same criss-cross behavior is true when someone creates a file at \\SERVER2\Public. It is first created on SERVER1 and then later replicates over to SERVER2. I'm not sure why this is happening. Is this normal? I would think it would be harmful to performance and failover ability.

Thank you.

Home file system using.. Windows 7 Ult or Windows 2008 server

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:25:11 Z

Hi folks,

(warning, I am a noob and unsure if this is the correct place for my question)
My wife and I have been using a Linksys router (wrt350n) that has storage option on it, which doesnt like my external terrabyte hard drive.. though Linksys tells me.If at any one point that we have pushed the router & the hard drive too hard, the hard drive stops responding and the router & hard drive will require reboot which doesnt make the wife happy when she is in the middle of work.  So I decided to use one of our older computers to run as a home networking file server or network server.. or what ever its called that allows files,mp3, videos, allows software to be run from etc..

So anywhoo.. All of my computers currently run the Windows 7 Ultimate besides the one I was going to use as the storage..

So my question(s) is this:

    1. Which would be better for me to use to do all of the (listed above) Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows Server 2008 standard?
    2 If which ever is the better choice, then what is the simple way to setup and run for a internal system for allowing all of the listed.

I apologize for the noobie question and appreciate any help that anyone could offer

usb can not recognised

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:25:06 Z

Usb Device not Recognized

One folder not replicating in w2k3 DFS

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:12:35 Z

Hi all

We have a customer what implemented a DFS solution some months ago, but. Now they changed added some hardware to the server and started to replicate some other disk.
We implemented a solution base on W2K3 R2. We have two server in two different geographical location conttect with a high speed connection (no normally we not have connection or slow conncection problems). We setted up a replication in full mesh based on disk, so we replicated disk 1 of the server A to the disk 1 of server B.
In a disk we have a folder with some share, the folder is about 800 Gb large. Our problem is that this folder is not replicating. Even if other folders on that disk are replicating very fast, that folder is not replicating in any way.
In details what we done:

- Created a new disk (assume that the logical unit is E:) on the server B
- Setted up a full mesh replication beetwen logical unit E: of server A and logical unit E: of server B. Server A is the master
- Setted up a staging space of about 100 Gb and setted the replication on 24h in full since we have no problem about occupation of the network.
- Replica started immediatly and replicated all the folder on disk E: of server A on server B, except one. That folder contains a lot of shares and data, and is hidden. Other folder that were replicated successfully have the same details, contains shares and data and, sometimes, are hidden. So we replicated all except that directory.
- In the last month we replicated successfully two other disk. One of that was less of 2 Tb and, after a reasonable time, we had all data replicated correctly

What we checked:

- We done a report from the DFS MMC and there is no evidence of problem about that path of replica.
- We checked the event viewer of noth servers and we found no errors. We have some events that confirm connection between the two servers for replica.
- Using command line we checked that status of replica about the disk that have problem. It said "partner is in sync...". In both direction.
- Created a test folder on server A and populated with some GB of data. After a while, the folder was replicated on server B in a reasonable time.
- Created a test folder on server B and populated with some GB of data. After a while, the folder was replicated on server A in a reasonable time.
- Changed name and/or attributes of different files and folders on the two server. All the changes were replicated correctly and fast.

So we can assume that the DFS is working, but for some reason, a folder is not replicated. Wich could be the problem? Where I can start to check to try to understand whats wrong in that directory?
All the help or suggestions will be very appreciated.

remote desktop services windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2000 AD

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:34:34 Z

I have a Windows 2000 AD network with a pile of Windows 2000 Terminal Servers that are pretty well identical. Could I plug in a 2008 R2 server running Remote Desktop Services and have that be a 'Terminal Server' for my existing network e.g. replace let's say current Terminal Server B running the same mix of apps as as it? What limitations would I face? What about at the client end - would I need to upgrade Remote Desktop client/dotnet, etc.?

Error: B:\ Is not accessable where B is a 360 KB flopy disk drive

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:11:39 Z

My system is setup to dual boot between Windows 98 and Windows 2000. When I boot to Windows 98 I have not trouble reading 360 KB floppy disks in my 360 KB flopy disk drive. When I boot to Windows 2000 I get the error:
B:\ is not accessable. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
The same error occurs regardless of whether or not there is a floppy disk in the drive.
Does Windows 2000 support 360 KB floppy disk drives?
I have search the Microsoft web site and have Googled the internet regarding this issue. I could find nothing on the Microsoft site that addressed the issue. The Google responses were mixed with some indication that Win2K may only support the 1.2 MB 5.25" floppy disk drives and not the 360 KB 5.25" floppy disk drives. Is this the case? Does Windows 2000 support any kind of 5.25" floppy disk drives?

Software iSCSI Target 2.2 on Windows Storage Server 2008: unable to connect from any initiator.

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:55:51 Z

Hi, everyone

I have installed iSCSI target software 3.2 on Windows Storage Server 2008 in according to following intructions:
http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/02/02/step-by-step-using-the-microsoft-iscsi-software-target-with-hyper-v-standalone-full-vhd.aspx

but the issue is that the iSCSI target is not avaible for any iSCSI initiator.
Eventvwr not return any error or warning.
I can initate connection by telnet on port 3260.
Firewall is off and the OS has the most recent patch installed.

Andrea Gail

2008 ~vs~ 2008 R2 for File Share management/quotas

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:08:01 Z

Hello, We are trying to discover the differences in qutoa management between 2008 and 2008 r2. -Are there many significant changes/differences? Thanks

Mapped drives disappear

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:14:48 Z

Our login script (vbs) mapped drives based on login. Recently a few XP clients have been experiencing a problem where they drives show up and then disappear. I'm not sure at this point if it's a client issue or server, the event logs on the clients do not show anything.

Many thanks for your help.

Windows clients can't connect to DFS

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:11:50 Z

I have a standalone Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2. I added the File Server role and set up a DFS namespace, to be hosted on that server, which we'll call Windows. So my namespace is:

\\Windows\Shares

I set up a folder pointing to an existing share location. I want anonymous access...so that anyone can access the shares without needing a local account on the server. Originally, nothing could connect to it without asking for a password, but after tweaking the following Local Security Policies:

Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts (set to Disabled)
Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares (set to Disabled)
Network access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users (set to Enabled)
Network access: Restrict anonymous access to Named Pipes and Shares (set to Disabled)

and ensuring that Everyone had share and NTFS read/execute permissions on the Shares folder (plus a reboot), Windows clients *still* won't connect to it. I've tried allowing NETWORK, NETWORK SERVICE and ANONYMOUS LOGON to have permission (both kinds) to the share...no luck. I've even tried giving Everyone access to C:\DFSRoots...no luck (after reboots after every configuration change).

I've tried accessing the server through its IP address and FQDN...no change. Tried mounting with net use...still asks for a password.

Even weirder, every time that I try to log on from a Windows box, on the client I get the prompt for a username/password, but on the DFS server, in the Secury log in Event Viewer, I get a Successful Network Logon entry with the user NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON, showing the correct workstation name (matching the client I tried to connect from). These events, although always successful, generally take one of two forms. The Logon Type is 3 in both cases, and the Logon ID matches, but in the case of the Windows client, the User Name and Domain are both blank; in the case of the Linux client, the User Name is ANONYMOUS LOGON and the Domain is NT AUTHORITY.

I have tried with a different standalone Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 box, and a Windows XP SP1, and a Windows XP SP2 box. All prompt for passwords. So does CIFS and SMB from a Mac.

I have no idea what is going on here. Hellllllllllllllpppppp

Windows Storage Server will it let you run hardware keys

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:51:01 Z

I have a PC with 3 hardware keys attached to it. I want to install Storage server on it, will it work? The Keys are USB and made by Aladdin

Second hard drive says write-protected

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:11:42 Z

I've got a new 2008 enterprise terminal server. I've installed all my apps to the 2nd hard drive. Now for no reason, I can't write to the drive and my apps can't either as they all crash as soon as they need to.

I get this exact error when simply trying to create a directory in the root of the drive:

"The disk is write-protected.

Remove the write-protection or use another disk."

I'm logging in as the local admin, domain admin makes no diff. I've also given full permissions to "everyone" with no luck. How the heck can I fix this bugger?

NetStorage style interface?

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:19:15 Z

Good afternoon all and thank you for taking the time to read my question.

In my previous position, I was the Systems Administrator of a Novell NetWare based infrastructure in which we utilized a Novell package called NetStorage so users could connect to a web page and view their home drives via any internet-connected workstation.

I was wondering if microsoft has a product similar to this whereby users could log in using a standard asp-based LDAP authentication and browse/download/upload/delete/etc. from their home drive (and possibly group drives).

I have searched everywhere and can't even find anything close to what I'm talking about. I did see a program called HTTP-Commander ( http://www.http-com.com/#NT ) but with this program it appears as though I need to load the application on the file server itself and I'm not able to have a portal-type server that controls the web-based traffic.

I certainly don't want to open firewall ports for my internal file servers, so it doesn't look like this application would be the best fit for my situation. Anything else you could recommend? Or a microsoft product similar to NetStorage that I don't know about??

Thanks again,

Robert Lawrason
Systems Analyst
St. Bernard Parish Public School System

Server 2003 R2 mode DFS

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:53:06 Z

Ok, so I have a domain that is at schema level 31 (Server 2003 R2) and will remain so for a while yet. We want to implement DFS, so here is my question.
If install Server 2008 with DFS, will it run in Server 2003 R2 mode? Or will DFS installation fail because there aren't any Server 2008 Domain controllers and the domain is in Server 2003 mode?
For my current requirements 2003 R2 DFS is sufficient.

How do I administer Index Server catalogs on Windows 2008?

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:07:20 Z

I've been using Index server since it's inception in NT4, it's a priceless feature of Windows, I use it to index all my source code (I search using Search tool which allows me to search only for C++/C# class names, etc..)

I just setup a Windows 2008 server and installed Index Server but I cannot find the mmc snap-in for Index Server.
Control Panel | Indexing Services does not work with Index server.

How do I administer Index Server on Windows 2008?

Thanks!

Matt Neerincx [MSFT]

HTTP 404 error on Dynamics CRM - IFD deployment

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:59:39 Z

Hi.

I cannot solve the IFD deployment issue for CRM 4.0.

Receiving the following error.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested Url: /signin.aspx

I susspect it is an IIS issue, but on the server itself, CRM is working fine.
Any ideas how to fix this would be appreciated

IIS Admin Service service fails to start with error "A service specific error occurred: 2148073483."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:07:16 Z

can anyone help me regarding this. I am getting the following errors

c:\winnt\profiles\apels>net start iisadmin

The IIS Admin Service service is starting.

The IIS Admin Service service could not be started.

A service specific error occurred: 2148073483.

Object of Reference: LOGFILE/SYSTEM-GENERAL

Problem Data: Tue Nov 17 16:54:01 2009 23055 AP0706080488A 7024 144 Service Control Manager EVENTLOG_ERROR_TYPE IIS Admin Service 2148073483 (0x8009000B)

Problem Text: PROBLEM

Sunny

how to supersede 64 session limit in volume shadow copy - windows server 2008

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:47:43 Z

Hi, people!
If anyone knows how to supersede the 64 sessions limit in volume shadow copy, let me know!
I need this very much....
I have 4 volumes, with about 4tb of data each. I need more or less 4 times a day sessions, and if I must follow the limit of 64 sessions, I will have just about 16 days in "Shadow Copy". I need at least 90 days....
I expect anyone could help me

I lost my program sonic record now

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:24:08 Z

I had the program sonic record now when I bought my computer. I lost when I downloaded firefox. How do I get it back?