Threads Replies Last Post 8 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8   Cannot access DFS Replication performance counters Hi, I have DFS-R set up between a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 in German with SP2 and a Windows 2003 Storage Server R2 x64 English with SP2. The initial replication seems to work, the staging area is filling, files are replicated from the primary member (the Storage Server). But the DFS-Replication event log on the Enterprise Edition Server (named XXXXX here) shows no act... 7 05.07.2007 23:01:06 Scripting out DFS and Replication I'm using 2003 R2 all around and trying to implement DFS and Replication. Using DFSUTIL, DFSCMD, and DFSRAdmin to script out the creation/configuration of the Namespace server(s), folder targets, replication group(s), etc. I am able to create everything and it all works correctly. I have two questions/problems that I'd like some help with. 1) If I use the DFS MMC snap-in to delete a ... 1 05.07.2007 19:02:06 Initial Replication hangs - how to stop it? Hello everyone, we have an urgent problem with our DFS-R Replication. Following Situation: We have 5 Servers in one Replication group. Everything was fine, until we added a new Server (branchoffice). The Initial Replication begins and finished. But after a short time the initial replications started again and hangs in this state. No data is replicated anymore between the members. th... 3 04.07.2007 23:44:02 Staging Folder size guidance Hi We are testing an implementation of DFS-R for our users home and shared data folders (in a hot standby scenario, to provide resilience) We've tested using small volumes data (10GB) and ran the diagnostic report to evaluate the replication efficiency, confilicts and staging folder size (which are currently left as defaults) We hope to use DFS-R for about 1.5TB data total with app... 3 04.07.2007 10:08:02 dfs file lock ? hi all, i've two sites with 1 DC on each one. 1 DC is running windows server 2003 server (sp2) the other one is running Windows server 2003 R2. I plan to use dfs frs or dfs replication of R2 version to synch files between both sites, and dfs namespace for high availability of files. I've got two questions. 1 - is possible to use dfs replication on with one non R2 server or do i n... 4 03.07.2007 16:16:18 DFS dns issue Hello all, Seeing an issue with DFS folder enumeration. Here is the design. Domain name is domain.local All servers are in the same domain and there are two sites within the domain. 2 domain controllers are in SiteA with IP addresses of 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 1 domain controller is in SiteB with an IP address of 10.1.0.1 All three domain controllers are namespace servers for \\d... 1 02.07.2007 18:22:08 Offline Files searching server When user work offline, and he click on file, it takes about 10 minutes, before open file.Computer looks like it freez. Than user get pop up window, telling him that \\server\......\Mydocument can not be access, but than user can work with that file normally offline. But if it clicks on different document, it will wait another ten minutes. User has no problem with txt files, only files that h... 1 02.07.2007 08:32:54 A question on DFS Roots hey guys we got 2 win03 enterprise domain servers in our network. here is my situation i setup DFS in our main server i named it DFS_Server and point to our main server to be the root. after that on the DFS_Server i created a "new root target" and point on our secondary server as its root and choose ring as its replication topology. it is my understanding that since DFS_Server has 2 root link... 1 02.07.2007 03:28:59 Replication between servers I have 1 win2k3 and 1 win2k3 R2 server and when i want to replicate from win2k3 R2 to win2k3 , it say dfs service is not installed in win2k3. But the service is on in win2k3. Pls advise. Thanks Daniel ... 11 01.07.2007 19:55:29 How does domain DFS get found by DNS Is there a special SRV record type? Does a client know to use any DC? ... 4 01.07.2007 17:40:01 DFS across different domains and forests What options do I have to use DFS across different domains and different forests? I have read that the different domains is not an issue as long as they are contained within the same forest. However, because of design issues I have two seperate forests. If it is not possible could someone direct me on how I merge forests so I have just one? Maybe merge is not the correct term to use here.... 2 01.07.2007 17:36:00 Event ID: 5014 I keep getting the following warning in eventvwr. It says that the RPC failed which I can't find anything about on google. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I have ran the diagnostic test on each replication group and none have returned any errors. The DFS Replication service is stopping communication with partner SERVER1 for replication group domain.local\some\replication... 6 01.07.2007 15:18:01 FRS: Excel files being renamed/deleted Setup: two servers, one is SBS standard 2k3 R2 the other is Windows Server standard 2k3 R2 x64. FRS used to sync a DFS share. Version of ntfrs.exe on both servers is 5.2.3790.3959 Problem: Users are seeing Excel files disappear or renamed to 8-digit hex names with no extension. This sounds a lot like the problem described in KB823230/KB811370 but these are obviously later versions. H... 1 29.06.2007 21:55:46 Re: Pointing to specific DFS referral for only one user. Is there anyway to specify which DFS referral to use for a specific user through the net use command. I have set up all users to point to a specific referal by giving the dfsutil command on the server /w GlobalHigh and it is working great but one of the remote users; only one wants to point to another server. The user does not want to login and set the DFS referral every time through M... 1 29.06.2007 21:26:03 install dfs mgmt & replication trouble - Help!! Hi all: I've got three Win2k3 SP2 domain controllers/file servers. I'm trying to retire one. All three have dfs installed; the new DC and the one it replaces both have DFS Management and Replication installed and operative; the third (to remain) has only DFS and I'm trying to add DFSM & R but it doesn't appear in Add Windows Components. I've also tried removing and re-adding the File S... 3 29.06.2007 20:00:35 Any good DFS BOOK resources I know there are a lot of white papers, and some books its a chapter in it, but has anyone done a more explicit DFS guide in a book yet? ... 1 29.06.2007 15:45:29 Namespace Servers, Replication and ABE Hi, I have 2 questions. 1. Can cluster nodes be in the namespace server list because the DFSRoots folder is created on local disk for a Domain-based DFSroot? (I am aware that the DFS-R service is not cluster aware) 2. Is it advisable to permission the C:\DFSRoots\* directory in order for ABE to work on DFS folders without targets and if so, do you need to apply the permissions ma... 1 29.06.2007 07:20:00 Restore after VSS Backup of FRS I want to do a restore after doing a backup using the VSS Writer of the File System Replication Service. I refer to a MSDN article: Handling FRS and SYSVOL under VSS (http:// msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/library/aa381639.aspx) The article speaks about a function named NtFrsApiEnumBackupSets... My question is where can I find this function's documentation and header file... I've tried to s... 7 28.06.2007 21:29:16 2 questions - Defrag and ABE Hello My first question :- Is anybody aware of any gotchas when it comes to running defrag on the volume that contains DFS replicated data from multiple sites. i.e Should I stop replication / stop the service / not do it ! ...... etc .. Second question :- I have followed the guidelines for setting up ABE, i.e enable it on the C:\DFSroots\target folder rather than on the target shares t... 2 28.06.2007 17:32:58 Missing hidden file / folders I'm using VFP9 and trying to get a list of files / folders of a given directory. the sample code below works great but is missing hiddent files and filders such as 'Local Settings'. Can you help? CLEAR lcDir = [C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\] loShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") loFolder = loShell.Namespace( lcDir ) For Each lcFileName in loFolder.Items *-------... 4 28.06.2007 16:15:43 Question to DFSR Replication Hello, i had 2 servers with Win2003r2 Sp2, everyone of the machines are set up with 4 network cards. A theoretical thing: Can i connect this 2 servers with a crossover cable and set the replication service to use only this network cards to unload the standard network card, on wich the users put/get the bits? Thanks for your help André ... 3 28.06.2007 13:31:38 Open file protection Can DFS notify user A in site A that user B in site B already oppened workbook.xls and it is read only? Please help. Need to figure this one. Can not test at the moment. Also, anyone did DFS for Solidworks PDM?... 2 27.06.2007 23:04:33 How domain DFS works under the hood... Hey all, Trying to get a non-windows box to figure out how to use a DFS path. Normally resoultion would just run port 53 DNS lookup for a host name and resolve it (which I can do with the device using direct server names). Can someone give me a good overview of how DFS strays from this method so I can try and get this working or atleast be able to communicate with the vendor? By th... 2 27.06.2007 22:33:51 DFS on server 2003 R2 - DFS root question Hi, We had an existing DFS structure similiar to this \\domain\DFS\share The share locations were spread around offices, running on 2003 file servers without R2. We have since upgraded all DC's to R2. Now if I created a new share \\domain\DFS\new With the target locations all on R2 servers, will it take advantage of the new DFSR, even though the other share still runs on non R... 3 27.06.2007 11:09:38 DFS (R2) "One or more replicated folders have sharing violations. Hi, i have a question about DFS in Server 2003 R2 We have a DFS configuration where we sync data with two sites (geograffically an office in City A and one in City B) Synchronisation goes well and clients can connect to the namespace. When i run a DFS Report i see the following error in the report: "One or more replicated folders have sharing violations. " and "Due to ongoing... 2 27.06.2007 08:49:34 8 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8