Threads Replies Last Post 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   System Folders appear in Win Explorer Recently I've had 5 objects called System Folder appear in the 'Other' group on my file server (when viewing in groups in My Computer). They're sitting below the Control Panel icon with no description, no recongnized icon and only Cut | Create Shortcut and Delete as context menu selections. The thing is I can't delete them or open them. I have no idea what created them. Sounds batty but... 1 04.06.2007 15:19:00 Is there any way to expand the system partition on Windows 2003 se Is there any way to expand the system partition (drive c:) on a Windows 2003 server? We are using a Dell configured Windows SBS 2003 server. Drive C: is only 12 GB. We have moved everything imaginable off of drive C:, but we have less then 1 GB left. Short of cntinually moving more stuff, is there any way to simply increase the size of drive C:? Or is there some other way to manag... 2 03.06.2007 21:06:00 Permissions by file type Is there any way to lock down folder permissions so that only certain file types can be copied to a folder? We want to limit a folder to only contain html files. ... 2 03.06.2007 18:38:29 diskpar error Hi, I am trying to run diskpar to align sectors on new disks in a Win2k sp4 server, but I keep getting the error "Open Drive Failed". I can successfully run "diskpar -i n" on old, existing drives to get info. But any time I try to run either "-i" or "s" on the two new disks (from a SAN) I get this error. Any ideas?... 7 01.06.2007 21:56:06 Quotas not accurate We have quotas turned on and enforced with the "Deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit" option checked. There are several users that if you right click on thier folder and check the file size, they are way over the 2GB limit, for example, one is 5.1GB but when we view the quotas entry page the user is only listed as using 69.65MB??? I have right clicked on the user from the Quo... 1 01.06.2007 16:04:02 Windows share - Force disconnect Hi, I have a shared location. i delete and recreate the location every night as a part of my process. If any clients are connect to that location, I am unable to delete the contents. Is it possible to force clients to disconnect? Is there a way to delete even if clients are connected? Thanks Shekar ... 2 01.06.2007 03:24:51 NTBackup errors due to path depth? Hello, We have been experiencing ntbackup errors on our file server for a very long time now. We think it could have something to do with path depths that are too deap. Could that be the case orcould it be something else? If it is the path length, how can we check this automatically? We use Windows SBS 2003 SP1. Below the ntbackup error, the D: disk is an internal disk and the error ... 2 01.06.2007 02:16:42 Disk Quota Behaviour disk quota has been enable on volume f where every user has 100MB currently userA has utilized 60MB currently userB has utilized 50MB scenario: userA created a new fileA of 20MB in volume f. the fileA allows userB to modify. userA now has utilized 80MB i understand that when userB modify the fileA, and increased its size to 25MB, it will be reflected on userA's utilization, which... 2 31.05.2007 09:36:44 Problem auditing file open events I kind of have this working. I have an Excel spreadsheet on my windows 2003 file server - ntfs partition. I know how to set up auditing but which events do i audit. I have selected list folder/read data ( although there is a traverse folder / execute file option). This appears to work but it throws up too many events when i open the file once. I'm looking to be able to see how many times... 3 30.05.2007 12:32:01 Windows 2003 R2 - File Screens I would like to prohibit large image files from being placed on the servers share space, but I don't want to prohibit small image files. It looks to me that the Windows 2003 R2 - File Screens feature can only screen file types and can't futher process this screen based on file size. Is there any other way to accomplish this? Thanks! -- Bob... 3 29.05.2007 08:47:25 GPT protection system In my system partitions, there is labelled "GPT protective system". What is that ? Thanks Daniel ... 7 29.05.2007 02:11:08 Migrating from Netware to Windows 2003 Server Hi We had a novell netware environment with file and print services hosted on the Novell servers. We are planning to migrate the Novell environment from Novell to AD. We have the AD environment up and running. Please provide me pointers/links where I have ample information on migrating File and Print data from Novell netware 6.0 to Windows 2003 environment. I have gone through the Plan... 1 28.05.2007 07:07:01 Password to open folder containing files Windows XP has a feature that allows the owner to encrypt the entire contents of a folder that contains many files, such as .doc. or .pdf. I have applied password protection to a folder, now I cannot open any files in that folder, and I cannot figure out how, when or where to apply the password to remove the encryption from that folder. This is very important. Is there anyone who can he... 2 28.05.2007 06:07:04 Windows 2003 R2 - Hard Quotas with DFS We tried to set hard quotas on three DFS directories, and then users were receiving the error: path not available, so we had to remove the quotas. Do hard quotas not work with DFS?... 1 25.05.2007 15:19:02 Sorting files and folders Hi! My father wants to sort his folders alphabetically but the contents of the folder by date, is this possible and if yes how? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Tom.... 4 25.05.2007 14:56:04 Registered .ocx files as user Hi, I have installed a couple of programs that run as an admin user fine, I gave the users full access to files both programs are stored, when I (as admin) use the program it works perfect but when a user tries they get errors saying .ocx files are not registered, so as an admin i manually registered them, but that had no effect. Has anyone got any ideas??? XP Pro Service Pack 2, All u... 2 24.05.2007 02:25:45 Hard Drive errors Hi, I've been having data corruption issues for a few weeks now. I think I narrowed the problem down to one of my two hard drives that are configured for RAID1 on Volume0 and RAID0 on Volume1. These are two SATA hard drives within the Dell 9200 machine. There are no other hard drives. When I installed Windows 2003 Server, I supplied the iaStor.sys via the F6 third party RAID drive... 4 24.05.2007 00:14:50 Can DFS work with Netware 6.5? Is there a way to implement Windows 2003 R2 DFS with Netware 6.5 file system? Thanks.... 2 23.05.2007 23:15:01 Counterfeit disk showing up in Explorer I've got a disk icon showing up in Explorer labeled "Local Disk I:" and it has no size and no files in it. When I click on it I get an error message that says "I: is not accessible. Parameter is incorrect. I am not able to delete it, but would like to... I've got two hard drives each with 3 partitions and am running XP Pro. Any thoughts?... 10 23.05.2007 14:06:00 Renaming .htaccess File I don't understand why I cannot rename this file (htaccess.txt) to .htaccess on either my local computer or via ftp on the web. I can see the file just fine but cannot change the file name. As a matter of fact, I cannot rename any file to start with a "period" (.). ... 2 23.05.2007 01:29:13 R2 DFS and 8.3 naming I've been toying with the notion of disabling 8.3 naming on three of our file servers. All three participate in a R2 domain-based DFS and one of them hosts a stand-alone DFS that is nested in the domain-based DFS. I'm trying to determine if disabling 8.3 naming will negatively affect R2 DFS. I've found the following article Q290075 "Distributed File System Links May Not Be Visible W... 1 22.05.2007 23:16:02 Permissions Help Please Following a move from our Corporate NT environment to 2003 Server AD environment we are no longer granted domain admin priviledge. Although we have created our own administrative global group, following the translation of security on a large file server we are no longer able to administer the file and folder resources. The folder structure consisting of 2million+ files has a mixture of ... 2 22.05.2007 10:32:52 Who change permissions i have shared folders with alot of information Some user have total control and others users only read. some days a user call am tell me that couldn't open some file I try to check and i nedd to take owenership file , in order to change permisions (hiretage). Who change permissions ? What is happening? ... 5 22.05.2007 07:31:22 Share violation on DFSR event logs Hello, The server is getting "The DFS Replication service has been repeatedly prevented from replicating a file due to consistent sharing violations encountered on the file. The service failed to stage a file for replication due to a sharing violation." What are the possible causes? Note: Please rule out the user opened R/W files without closing them What are the possible solutions? ... 2 22.05.2007 03:05:15 Quotas/File Ownership Greetings, We're migrating all of our users' home drives from NetWare servers to MS W2K3 servers. We've set users to have a 2G quota for the drive with their home directories. The problem is that when we move the data over it does not apply towards their quota as they are not the owner. So, if a user already has close to 2 G in their home drive they now effectively have a 4 G limit... 3 21.05.2007 15:04:52 7 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7