Threads Replies Last Post 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   Random shared folders are changing attributes We have a Windows 2003 server with shares available to our users and about 6 months ago we started getting helpdesk tickets asking why folders where "disappearing" from the folder structure. Upon investigating it further in every case the folder is just marked with the "hidden" and "system" attribute. We have to use the ATTRIB command to remove the attributes. It doesn't seem to h... 4 21.05.2007 04:57:21 Task Manager. i have been infected with virus IM-Worm.Win32.Sohanad.ar, after installing kaspersky,i have succesfully eliminate those viruses. The problem is, my task manager & folder option has been blocked by administrator, the message says..but im the one who installed and maintain my own pc and windows..so no other user..how can i turn back these features?... 3 21.05.2007 02:41:00 DOS Program Access Hi I run a laptop with no floppy but CD Rom. Operating system is Windows 2000 formatted with NTFS The problem I am having is this: I need to run a small DOS based analysis program on this laptop. This program will not run under W2K but will run under Win98 (or before) I made a W98 boot CD and booted from it. I then booted from the CD (using the CD support option) and then remov... 4 20.05.2007 23:16:01 Volume Shadow Copy issue Have Volume Shadow Copy for Shared folders configured on dozens of 2003 SP1 R2 servers. Works fine. Had an issue today though. E: drive is 220G basic disk (part of a single SCSI RAID5 array with two other disks). 22G max limit on Shadow copy - Show copies stored on same disk (E:) 7 shares on E: drive. Single shadow copy occuring daily overnight. Configuration had been running fi... 1 20.05.2007 04:28:01 Limit the size of Print jobs was wondering if there is a way to limit the size of print jobs accepted by the print server. This would be on 2k3 ent in an AD domian. Didn't know if there were any resource kit utilities, group policy options etc. that addressed this need. Thanks, John... 1 18.05.2007 15:45:03 Huge fileson the same folder Hello: Does any recommendation for how many files on the same folder? If the folder have huge of files at the same level, does any configuration can improve the performance? Thanks!... 5 18.05.2007 14:29:22 File Server Migraition Toolkit Hello I have a domain controller on my company. I have a storage area on this DC and all user data is storaged on this E: drive. Also, I have installed Windows 2003 on a new server and I would like to use it as file server of my company. I have configured 2 HDDs with RAID system, these 2 disks are mirrors of each other. I am planning to move all user data on DC to this new file server... 1 18.05.2007 11:15:00 Share security - Permissions We are currently setting up a new file server cluster in our organization. One of the main purposes is for shared directories. Planned layout is "servername\sharename\dept share". There could be a hundred folders for different departments under the share and we want to map a drive for the users to "servername\sharename". Groups are setup with the rights for each "dept share". The pr... 1 17.05.2007 18:19:01 Automating functions /Windows 2000 Hello, I do a daily backup of a shared drive by dragging the shared folder to one on a removable hard drive. Is there a way to do backup (with a bat file?) to automatically reply to questions about certain files asking me if want to override a previous version etc. ... I keep a week's worth of backups on the hard drive and overwrite the oldest file daily. I was very familiar with... 5 17.05.2007 04:23:35 DFSR Sharing Violations I noticed a few sharing violations on three urls in my Favorites. These are urls to three virtual servers and they keep getting updated (as is observed in the time stamp) when the web page is open. When I close IE, the urls stop being updated. The problem is DFSR Diagnoistic Report continues to indicate sharing violations on these three urls (and several other files). Also, new event ... 4 16.05.2007 05:10:53 Event ID 560 Hi, I have a pretty strange problem that is causing me some headaches, and causing a security scare at our place!! Wont go into details for obvious reasons, but the end result is that I think that either there is some automated process at work, or Windows 2003 is behaving in a very peculiar mannar. Here's the deal..... We have 600 users, all who have their personal shares mapped t... 2 16.05.2007 03:11:55 Smartcard / NTFS Encryption Hi, I am trying to store the certificates for NTFS Encryption on the smartcards of my user. It took me quite long to find a CSP which is capable of doing so. So far it is working now but now I have some questions regarding NTFS encryption. Im am still experimenting around. First I create an encrypted folder, then I export the encryption certificate and import it into the smartcard and d... 1 13.05.2007 23:30:23 Fields displayed in Explorer Win XP Currently when viewing the details of my pictures in Explorer the default fields are Name, Size, Type, Date Modified. I can change the fields by Rt clicking a field and changing the options but I want the default to be Name, Size, Type, Date Picture Taken Could anyone please tell me where to specify the default settings? Thanks for any help David... 5 11.05.2007 05:33:00 Roaming Profiles and Ntuser.dat I have a very strange problem. It started almost 2 weeks ago and continues. Each day I get about 5 users that call me saying they can't open outlook and all their recent docs, internet favorites etc are missing. I look in their profile and notice that the ntsuer.dat file in only 256kb in size. I go to tape backup and can do a restore from the night before and it fixes all their pro... 1 10.05.2007 12:58:03 Redirected folders keep going offline every few seconds Hi, I have a server (Win2K3 Standard) with shared folders that are used for Group Policy Folder Redirection. The client PC's are XP Pro on the same domain, same subnet, same location. When I log in as a user, they can see all the shares on the server. Then a few seconds later I get an Icon on the bottom from Offile Files that the server is Unavailable for Reconnect. and all the shares d... 1 10.05.2007 11:12:01 My broken MFT (chkdsk fails) Hello, The filetable of my data partition has become 'unstable', repairing it with chkdsk works sometimes, but running it again a couple of minutes later just turns up new errors. Some context: I'm running Vista Bussiness (in Dutch so I don't know the exact errormessages), with NTFS obviously. The harddrive is on a RAID controller, so it doesn't get recognised by most DOS-utilities. ... 1 10.05.2007 08:58:23 redirection of a share or subfolder I have a share by the the name of share. Each department has a subfolder under the share. The departments use these their share to store documents. One department keeps changing their name and their sub folder name (to reflect the department name.Every time they do this user have to remap shortcuts and attachements to the renamed subfolder. There has to be a Easy way to redirect (Cname... 1 09.05.2007 13:55:01 Saving and Sorting Outlook messages on a File Server Bit of a strange query this... when saving emails in Outlook to a file server (in either .rtf or .msg format), could anyone tell me if there is there a way of sorting the saved files in any Outlook-related attribute, e.g. by the received date of the email. Thanks. ... 1 09.05.2007 13:21:02 Folder\file details What does "Date modified" and "Date Accessed" exactly mean? I am trying to find out how which folders to block access to so I can redo permissions to tighten security on our netowrk shares. I want to block the folders that users have not accessed since 2005. However most of the folders have been accessed in the last day or two probably by the backup job. Is there a better way to d... 1 08.05.2007 14:49:01 Mapped drive letter conflict I have a network drive mapped at F:, and if I plug in a USB Drive XP Pro assigns the drive letter to it andI cannot access either unless I go to Disk Management and manually reassign a new drive letter. Any Help? ... 3 08.05.2007 12:39:32 Start up File Error I hope I have this in the right group. If not please let me know where this should go. I'm getting an error upon startup of my computer. Here it is: Disk I/O Error = 00001000 Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows 2000 root> System32\ntoskrnl.exe Please re-install a copy of the above file I have tried the repair from the... 4 08.05.2007 10:30:24 shared folder security & permissions I have a W2k3 server with file services enabled, I am trying to configure a shared data folder for all users home folders. The default security permissions gives all users access to all of the home folders. I have gone into each folder (70+) and revoked inherited rights from the parent (Users) folder. W2k was completely differnet. What is the correct way to set up a home folder ... 1 07.05.2007 19:54:01 Windows 2000 file sharing timeout problem I’m running windows 2000 SP 4. The application it’s hosting is tibco A file adapter is configured on tibco to access a remote share The file adapter polls that share every 5 seconds The file share path is using an administrative hidden share \\ServerName\d$\path Intermittently the access to the share times out. I looked at the network source and destination without any... 1 07.05.2007 19:54:01 Directory Service cannot start I got the following error today upon bootup of Windows Server 2003 SP 2 R2 Enterprise: ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Active Directory is rebuilding indices. Please wait… Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the followingi error: Directory Service cannot start. Error Status: 0xc00002e1. Please click OK to shutdown this syst... 6 07.05.2007 08:31:49 Why is formatting a disk so slow? I am formatting a disk (on a SAN) through Disk Administrator. I am wondering what is taking soooo long. The SAN shold be respondibg fairly quickly, but none of the performance counters seem to indicate a queue or even a "volume" of actions Can anyone shed any light Thanks ... 2 05.05.2007 15:37:34 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7