Threads Replies Last Post 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   Windows 2000 / viewing thumbnails Hello .. I would really appreciate some help with the following: One of our pc's at the office has a problem showing jpgs (or other picture files) as thumbnails (no pictures) in windows explorer. We have folders full of jpgs, which on other systems with win 2000 show the thumbnails, but not this one system. When you click the View icon on the Windows explorer screen and choose "thumb... 1 29.06.2007 03:16:27 Granting "full control" on ~2500 folders We have about 5000 user home directory folders on a server (for example \\server\users\someuser). In about half of these 5000 folders, the user to which the folder belongs does NOT have full control over the folder. We need users to have full control over their own home directory to get folder redirection to work properly. Essentially, we need something to go through all 5000 folders and do... 11 28.06.2007 15:52:08 when can you move a file?/when can you delete a file? Hi all, i am setting up a ntfs-folder. Now I need to know when an user can delete a file; I discovered the following two scenario's: #delete permissions on the file #"delete subfolders and files" on parent folder and a permission(doesn't matter) on the file To move a file to a new directory I discovered the following scenario only: #"create file"on the new directory and "delete" o... 1 28.06.2007 09:54:02 Moving Shared Folders to a new server I am rebuilding my files server. How can I move Shared and keep the permissions intact? ... 3 28.06.2007 09:43:55 DFS, Folder Redirection and Offline Files... Hello to all... We have a Windows 2003 domain, two w2k3 SP1 DCs, and my file server is w2k3 R2 SP1 Ent. All of our client machines are Windows XP SP2. We performed a Root Consolidation via the File Server Migration Utility and Root Consolidation wizard. I also have a Domain based DFS namespace. We performed the Root Consolidation for legacy reasons. Namely a ton of linked files on ... 1 28.06.2007 03:52:01 Reboot problem If I should not be posting to this group - please forgive me. I can't figure out the best place to ask the question. I am trying to help a friend who is getting an error message when he starts his computer and I am not even sure it is a Windows error. The error message is "Error - cannot complete any more threads". Could anyone tell me where I might go from here or where would be a good... 2 28.06.2007 03:29:57 Random File Selection Software Need software to copy a limited number (eg - 100) of randomly selected files from a large library (eg - 1000) of *.mp3 files ...... 1 27.06.2007 17:41:28 File Version on multipel servers I have over 100 windows servers that I need to assure have the correct version of msiexec.exe before applying sp2 for mom 2005. Can’t find how I can do this throw a script. Have tried filever.exe but that only works locally. Anyone have any suggestions?... 1 27.06.2007 17:20:03 File name length I am running Windows XP Pro SP 2 with Office 2007. My hard drive refuses to accept folders or file names that are longer than 32 characters. Anyone know what is going on?... 1 27.06.2007 15:32:04 Automatic file deletion based on date Does anyone have a good way to delete files automatically based on date? I need to delete a huge amount of files that are say older than 3 months? I was just wondering if there is a way in windows to do this or a script someone has already written, so that I don't need to buy a 3rd party software. Thanks, Evie ... 3 27.06.2007 14:17:30 Shadow Copies deleted "Could not gorw in time" I have a 2003 SP1 server running in VMWare on a 64 bit Windows 2003 host. For several months, we had no issues but lately we continually get "The shadow copies of volume I: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time." and all shadow copies are deleted. We have increased space available for the shadow copy volume and had the copies created at times of less serve... 1 27.06.2007 12:40:03 Offline Folder Synchronization Hi, What's the difference between the following two synchronization options in Windows XP? #1 - Synchronization Settings 1) From the tools menu of Windows Explorer, select Synchronize. 2) Click the Setup button. 3) Here you'll find "Automatically synchronize the selected items" with two check boxes: "When I log on my computer" and "When I log off my computer". #2 - Folder Options ... 9 27.06.2007 06:51:24 Delete only his/her own files/folders Hii everybody, I have a shared folder on a Windows 2003 R2 server. All users may copy files and create folders but cannot delete them. I didn't give them delete right, because they can mistakenly delete files or folders from other users too. What I want to do is, to make the users delete/modify only their own files /folders. I couldn't manage it with the rights on Windows 2003. Can ... 1 26.06.2007 05:48:50 System Volume Information Could someone please help me? I would like to open my “System Volume Information” folder and review some files. This is my home computer and I am logged on as the administrator, I can see the system volume folder but I don't have the ability to access the folder. I have tried accessing this folder in the "Safe Mode" and I still cannot access the folder. Thanks for anyone's help. ... 2 26.06.2007 05:18:06 Inherited security overrides file level security I have a folder “A” , user A has modify permission on the folder. Under folder A is document file A. User B has been given modify on document A at the file level. Once these permissions are set user B can use document A just fine. However if User A or any user with Inherited permissions saves document A, all file level security permissions disappear and change to the inherited pe... 2 25.06.2007 23:17:00 Can't create a new partition on unallocated drive Hello there, I am trying to create a new partition on an unallocated drive but the option is greyed out. I have a 2.7 TB RAID5 created using a 3ware Raid controller which is disk 0. To install the operating system, I created a 10 GB system drive and install the OS on a 30 GB Disk 1. I was only able to create a 2TB partition on Disk 0 but the 2.7 TB drive was split into two unallocated ... 3 25.06.2007 19:53:01 file associations/registry hack Does anyone know how to change the behavior of the file association window. When I bring mine up the "new" "Change" "Delete" buttons are grayed-out and hence unavailable. This has only been the case since my new computer arrived on my desk and our IT folks don't seem to have a clue. I'm using WinXP Pro SP2 and have Full Access rights to the system. ... 2 22.06.2007 03:06:35 Find User ACLs on a file system Hi, I'm looking for a tool that could find all ACLs set on a directory and its subdirectories for a specific user. For example : find all the directories where the group "Sales & Mktg" has rights on a directory tree. Does anyone knows where I could find this (either commercial or not) ? Thanks in advance. Stéphane... 2 21.06.2007 22:07:35 File Access Audit on File Server Hi, due to regulations we have to monitor any access to the files stored on our file server. At the first glance i thought no problem - use windows tools and every thing is ok. But the problem is now that there are too much log messages. So the server performance is going down in case of activated windows logging. Are there possiblities in windows (or some external tools) to set up a high... 2 21.06.2007 18:12:33 Attributes and Security Issue Okay, here's the deal: I have a windows 2003 server set up as a file server. There are users home drive on there. A user was having an issue copying and pasting, or even opening a file on her share. I logged into the server as admin and I too can not open/copy the file. I get an error that the file is in use by another program (which it is not). Upon further investigation I notice a few odd ... 2 21.06.2007 13:03:36 Hiding folders within a share - urgent I have a root share that is accessible to all domain users. All of our department directories are below this root and have rights associated to them dependant on the department you are in. Is is possible, when a user browses to the root, that a configuration can be made that will only show them the folders they have access to as opposed to showing every folder in the root whether or no... 3 21.06.2007 12:46:01 Change file creation date, or modify copyright date Hi. I recently moved a large number of files on our W2K server. For some reason, the creation date on some files changed to the date they moved (this never happened in testing). Ideally, I would like to correct the creation date, preferably through writing a VB program that modified each file's date. Does anyone know how to modify the creation date programmatically? My guess is, though, ... 3 21.06.2007 05:55:00 Backing up Outlook data on laptops in a MS 3k domain without Excha We have several laptop users who are in the office infrequently throughout the week. All laptops have domain membership with roaming profiles and offline file synchronization active. This way, their profiles and data are synchronized with a server during logon/logoff. But offline file synch doesn’t let you target files like Outlook’s .PST file because of the nature of the file. I wan... 2 20.06.2007 18:06:58 DFS MMC issues following W2K3 SP2 install I have a domain DFS root "Data" being hosted on 3 W2K3 servers. K1 & K2 are at one site, S2 is at another site. K1 & K2 were SP1 when the root was set up. S2 was SP2. After installing SP2 on K1 & K2, the DFS MMC errors out when attempting various operations. When attempting to view the Properties of a link, I get the error message: "The following error occurred. The root cannot... 1 18.06.2007 21:28:01 Distributed File System (dfsr.exe) I'm running Windows 2003 R2, I have noticed that dfsr.exe process is pulling up "% Disk Time" to 100% for long time, which is slowing down my users. I remove any replication I had and still dfsr.exe is eating my hard drive !! Any idea why is that ?... 1 18.06.2007 17:53:00 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7