DFS Namespace New Folder Issue

October 27, 2014, 6:15 pm

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Quick Overview Current Setup

2 Windows Server 2012 R2 with DFS and DFS Replication roles/features installed (File01 and File02)

Read and Followed TN Guide http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732863.aspx

Created Namespace on C:\DFSRoots\Shares, Share permissions: Everyone Full

NameSpace: \\domain\shares, added file02 as secondary namespace server, File02 Override Referral set to "Last Among All Targets"

Here is the issue I am having and not fully understand. I create a new folder under the root \shares, added folder target on both servers. DFS Creates the folder on the network share but has the shortcut icon on the folder.

I cannot open the folder locally or via the namespace, what gives?
Error: c:\dfsroots\shares\foldername is not accessible. The network location cannot be reached.

If I go to the \\namespace\shares\ I see the foldername with the shortcut icon on the folder again. I click on the folder and it keeps looping. What gives again?

Any further insight into this DFS(R) is greatly appreciated as I am confused because the TN article did no help nor did a blog page with step by step information: http://mizitechinfo.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/step-by-step-deploy-dfs-in-windows-server-2012-r2/

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Making NTFS permissions read/write without ability to create/delete folders

October 31, 2014, 6:50 am

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Out at one of our job sites we have a server running Windows Server 2012 R2 that's got a file share accessible to our onsite people. Our project managers have devised a very strict folder structure for this file share, and for auditing purposes they want to stick as close to this structure as possible.

Therefore, although people onsite must have read/write access to create, modify and delete files, they do not want them to be able to create or delete folders. They want them to use the existing folders and not tuck stuff away into folders that no one knows exists except the person who created them.

The closest way I've found to do this is to deselect the advanced permissions 'Create folders / append data' and 'Delete subfolders and files.' This has a few side effects however, the most noticeable being that due to not being able to append data to files, certain files (such as CAD drawings) can't be edited by anyone except the person who created them.

Is there a way using just NTFS permissions to accomplish what the project managers want? And if not, are there any useful third-party utilities that will help us do this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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DFS Tombstoned deletion

October 31, 2014, 9:00 am

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I have a question about tombstone deletion. Exactly what is it and should I be worried that it will delete user folders on either server?

How this came about was that my DFS replication stopped so i deleted the replication group and then recreated it using a different group name. I just added the same folders on both servers. It was the same setup just a different group name. I then ran a health report and this is what I got.

The DFS Replication service stopped replication on replicated folder Fileserver at local path E:\Fileserver due to Error ID: 9098 (A tombstoned content set deletion has been scheduled). Event ID: 4004

Thank you.

Richard Frazier

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Server 2012 iSCSI issue

October 31, 2014, 9:10 am

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I am setting up an iSCSI target for the first time. I have setup my target and created a disk. When I try and point my initiator at the targets IP and select quick connect it says "no targets are available for Login using quick connect" - I have opted to not tick CHAP authentication on the target. I have also noticed that my target status says "not connected" in server manager on my target server. Is this right? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

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How to access client's drive?

October 31, 2014, 8:06 am

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Hello,

I created a SMB share folder from my server to another server. Now I want to create/copy some files from my server to the destination server/client. How can I do that? Only by Remote Desktop?

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Sharing

October 31, 2014, 12:53 am

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In File Service & Storage sharing option is not visible.. What should i do to get it back?

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Can't access anything but offline folders on slow VPN

October 24, 2014, 11:28 am

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As the title says, some of my users have set up offline folder syncing on Windows 7 laptops because they are out of the office at customer sites pretty frequently and want to have files handy. From time to time they may need to connect back into the network over VPN and access other folders on the file server. The problem we see is that from time to time they will connect, and even though they can see the mapped drive to the file server, all they can access is the folder marked for offline syncing and all other folders or files on that drive are marked with gray Xs. To make this a bit more confusing, other drives that are mapped are fully accessible, only the drive that has any offline folder is not. This does not always happen, but it is frequent enough that it is causing users to complain.

All laptops are Win7 Pro 64bit, the office has a 20MB fiber internet circuit and GbE network, Barracuda X300 Firewall, 2k3 and 2K8 file servers

Even though we don't currently use it, IPv6 is enabled on the clients' VPN connections. Currently use PPTP.

I've looked around a bit and can't really put my finger on anything that seems to resolve the issue. Disabling slow link mode doesn't seem to do anything. Anything else I can try?

Thanks

Manning

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ReFS and Hardware RAID

October 28, 2014, 11:26 am

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Hi there,

Just wanting to confirm if ReFS can be used with a RAID 6 Hardware Controlled system - or must it be used in conjunction with Storage Spaces? I have 3 x 80TB Volumes across a bunch of devices and I'm tossing up between moving to Linux and formatting EXT4 File System, or keeping ReFS if it will work on top of the RAID Controller?

Thanks.

Zak.

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Confusing disk usage numbers

October 25, 2014, 2:59 am

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Hi, all.

While in a prosess of moving a large file share I came across a strange issue. I wanted to check the amount of data moved so I checked the properties of the disk I'm moving data to - 1.38TB used, data deduplication shows savings of about 0.6TB so I got about 2TB data moved. Then I check properties of the folder containing data, and there comes surprise - 2TB of data, as expected, but size on disk is just 86 GB :-)

Is this just a bug or there is some logical explanation to those numbers?

Gleb.

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File Serving/Shares and vhdx

August 1, 2014, 1:39 pm

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On a 2012R2 guest OS that is going to be a file server...(low I/O really for our smb)

Should I make one big VHDX attached to the guest to host say 7 shares...

Or should I logically split them up into separate vhdx files, but not 7 different ones as I would like to group them together into say maybe 4.

This is mainly for logical organization and isolation. I was curious to any negative effects from doing it that way.

I mean I wouldn't like a bunch of smaller vhdx files, but I'm not sure if I want one big one either.

I wouldn't mind having the engineering share as it's own vhdx though.

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Automated scrubbing and bit rot repair on a mirrored storage space using ReFS

October 18, 2014, 4:40 am

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I use several ReFS volumes , either on one-way or two-way mirrored storage spaces under Windows Server 2012R2.

The description of the automated 'scrubbing' on TechNet seems a bit unclear to me. Microsoft explains:

Integrity. ReFS stores data in a way that protects it from many of the common errors that can normally cause data loss. When ReFS is used in conjunction with a mirror space or a parity space, detected corruption—both metadata and user data, when integrity streams are enabled—can be automatically repaired using the alternate copy provided by Storage Spaces. In addition, there are Windows PowerShell cmdlets (Get-FileIntegrity andSet-FileIntegrity) that you can use to manage the integrity and disk scrubbing policies.

And further on:

ReFS can automatically correct corruption on a parity space when integrity streams are enabled to detect corrupt data and because ReFS examines the second (and third) copies that the data parity spaces contain. ReFS then uses the correct version to correct the corruption.

Note
ReFS can already detect corruption on mirrored spaces and automatically repair those corruptions.

Does this mean the file attribute "FileIntegrity" has to be set to "on" in order for automatic scrubs (of user data) and automatic correction (of user data) an mirrored spaces to take place--or not?

If the answer is that "FileIntegrity" has to be explicitly set to "on", what happens with new files copied into or created in an existing folder structure for which I set "FileIntegrity" to on? Do I see it correctly that "FileIntegrity" is off for new files by default?

So do I have to run a PowerShell command like

PS C:\> Get-Item-Path 'H:\Temp\*' | Set-FileIntegrity-Enable $True

(source)

every time a new file might have been copied into the folder structure of "H:\Temp\" in order to activate automatic scrubbing and repairing forall files in this folder?

Thanks for your comments.

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VSS Copy Service Error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376

July 30, 2010, 2:04 am

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Hi all,

New server and installation of Server 2008 R2, AD and SQL Server running on it.

Whenever i run a Windows Server Backup i get the following series of Errors in the Application Log, in this order:

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account Administrator with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.

Operation:
Executing Asynchronous Operation

Context:
Current State: DoSnapshotSet