Threads Replies Last Post 12 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12   Cannot delete folder in dfs Hi, I cannot delete any folder (with or without folder target) in DFS namespace structure on Windows 2008 server. It is domain type of namespace. The error message is "The folder cannot be deleted. Cannot complete this function." This error apears if I want add folder target too. The domain is Windows 2008 level. The domain was upgraded from windows 2000 domain and DFS was first implem... 1 12/30/2008 10:30:01 AM Maximum files per directory under Windows 2003 Please let me know the maximum files supported under windows 2003 folder. I have NTFS. ... 2 12/26/2008 12:04:57 PM Need help on DFS implimentation. Hi I am planning to impliment DFS and need some help. 1. I have 3 File server almost identical space on both 4 TB windows server 2003 Ent Edi. the data on these server is about 1-2 TB each server A. most of the copy "from" location files and folders are located on 1st server - 1 TB of data grow slowly has free space 1.5 TB B. most of the copy "to" location files and f... 1 12/23/2008 4:53:51 PM DFS replication - intra-site load sharing question I have 2 questions if someone could help please, ---Under this setup--- \\server1\All_Shares (Site 1) \\server2\All_Shares (Site 1) \\Domain.local\Shares ---- 1. If I configure 2 servers as above and use DFS to replicate between them, will DFS hand out referals for both server in a load balancing way? Or would I be better off spliting the shares between the 2 servers? 2. My u... 2 12/23/2008 1:51:01 PM NTFRS between 2003 SBS and 2008 Hi, it is possible to replicate file between a 2003 SBS (not R2) and a Server 2008 Std.? Thanks. Stefan... 1 12/22/2008 9:58:00 AM Volume snapshots disappearing? I have deployed two identical servers (Storage Server 2003 R2 SP2 x64 - Dell NF500 + MD3000) with DFS Namespaces and Replication and one shared folder on the D: volume. This folder (Users) replicates between the two servers. I have also configured Volume shadow copies on the D: volume of each server and assigned 3.8TB for the shadow data (total volume is 10.9TB). I have decided to keep ... 3 12/22/2008 2:47:42 AM file filter Hello, When we put a file filter to the replication, if the files are already replicated, will they be deleted? Thank you Regards ... 3 12/21/2008 11:13:52 AM When using DFS windows explorer shows owner sids instead of friendly names All 2003 R2 DC's, when using DFS namespaces when the option to show the owner column is used in windows explorer the sids show instead of the friendly user names. If I go in via a standard unc \\server\share the friendly name resolves fine or if on the server, only appears to happen via dfs namespaces. Any ideas ?... 3 12/20/2008 6:01:46 PM DFS target folder permissions I am in a dilemma here with permissions in Windows 2008 DFS and need to know how to resolve this issue. I have a Windows DFS 2008 server with DFS installed in Stand-alone mode. I created a namespace ABC using wizard, no problem. I created Folder and added target folder located on the same server but different drive. I used Customize option and added necessary permissions to the fold... 4 12/20/2008 9:27:51 AM DFS Intersite Hello, We have replicated a DFS share to a new site. We currently have 3 sites (all running Windows 2003 R2 sp20 that have a local copy of the DFS root. The problem is that users are rarely accessing their local dfs share. Sites and services look like they are set up properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sj... 4 12/19/2008 9:15:01 PM Missing folders. I have DFS-R running between 2 file servers. Window 2003 R2 and windows storage 2003 R2. It is replicating 3 namesspaces. Public, User, Cprofiles. Every couple of weeks, a User directory will disappear off both servers. I have to recover from our backup. How can I troubleshoot this issue? Any tools or logs of deleted items? This gets worrysome, since the reason I installed Name... 2 12/19/2008 8:35:59 AM logon and DFS shares we have DFS shares and use redirect from our my documents. My question is how does a client choose which server it accesses the shares from? regards, DJ ... 3 12/18/2008 7:05:59 AM NtFrs_PreExisting___See_EventLog I have windows 2003 domain with 4 DC. 2 in my default site and 2 in remote sites. I have been having a problem where I created / modified a few Group Policy items the install or update software. I noticed the installs did not kick off. The even log on the client give errors about path not found to the GPO. I see the path on one DC but not the other. Then I see the folder NtFrs_PreExist... 1 12/17/2008 9:49:01 PM Moving DFS Staging path from default location? I have my Replicated folder set up with the Staging path set as default: D:\USERS\DfsrPrivate\Staging Quota: 4096 D:\USERS\DfsrPrivate\ConflictAndDeleted Quota: 660 I want to move these to another disk set as per the following technet article <http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/03/20/422544.aspx> which states: "It is also a best practice to locate the staging fol... 4 12/17/2008 2:16:44 PM The Diretory is not empty This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0606_01C95E09.B9C594A0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to create a folder in an existing namespace, with other folders in it, and add targets to this folder. Whenever I try, get this error: (See Attachment) What does ... 4 12/17/2008 2:32:05 AM Not Sure If Should USE a Cluster or Network Load Balancing My company just got a new SAN that has two Windows 2003 Storage Edition NAS heads. I want to use DFS so users can connect to one name space. I also want to provide fault tolerance and increased performance for the NAS heads should I cluster these two servers or use network load balance. Please help.. If you could example which is the better choice it would be very helpful... 1 12/16/2008 8:17:01 PM Replication Diagnostic Report issue hi My server is Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition Service Pack 2, and i have updated all hotfix. when i create the report, the system shows a error message, the message is "The health report cannot be generated Error HRESULTE_FAIL has been returned from a call a COM component". I try to follow to follow http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912154 suggestion, but i have updat... 1 12/16/2008 2:35:00 AM Can't create new folder in namespace I'm trying to add a folder to a namespace on a Server 2008 DFS. The add fails with this error message: "The folder target \\hard-eight\ddrive\mailboxes cannot be added to the folder. The directory is not empty". I am confused about "the directory is not empty"> What is DFS talking about? Tom Mason -- ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU 4800+ 4GB RAM nVidia GeForce 8... 3 12/15/2008 7:20:56 AM How do I tell if Pre-Staging is working during initial replication I am pre-staging a new DFS target (DFS-T2) before adding it to the replication. I do this by copying the files from the already existing DFS target (DFS-T1) using 'xcoyp /o' (in order to speed up initial replication, and save on network bandwidth) Once replication is enabled for DFS-T2, everything in the folder is moved to the 'NtFrs_PreExisting___See_EventLog' folder, and then slowly ... 5 12/12/2008 3:26:00 PM VSS restore with DFS Replication Thanks to DaveMills helpful words I went ahead to VSS configure on both servers in my DFS Namespace which are hosting target folders for a DFS replication group. I do have a (rather simple) question regarding VSS restore though. I have the below: Physical shares: \\SERVER_A\USERS$ (VSS enabled volume - running with defeault schedules) \\SERVER_B\USERS$ (VSS enabled volume- running wi... 2 12/12/2008 4:57:14 AM DFS Structure help I am setting up DFS (R2) right now with namespaces and replication. I think I may be making a fundamental mistake though with the structure. I will only be using it for user folders at this time so I: - created my namespace server: Server_A - Namespace name and settings: USERS (E:\DFSRoots\USERS\) <- Shared the Users folder Everything is great up to this point as I can now see "\... 9 12/12/2008 4:45:11 AM is DFS FRS right for me I have been looking at some 3rd party tools to sync insert/update/ deletes a folder from 4 servers to one. I need to start with the folders out of sync (existing files in the left hand folders) then once I turn the sync on the webserver should have all the new insert/ update/deletes that occur at each of the outer 4 servers. Sync Toy does what I want except for them starting out of sync. ... 1 12/10/2008 7:06:04 PM old file keeps coming back I have file replication between two 2003 servers. When I attempt to update a file, the old version keeps coming back. I have tried editing, overwriting, deleting. Still the old version comes back. ... 1 12/10/2008 5:54:14 PM I'm confused I'm not sure what to do here. I've got three servers hosting my DFS namespaces. They all have the same data (hopefully) and we use them for high availability and data backup purposes. Should I define the DFS namespaces and replication on all three servers, using the DFS Management snap-in, or can I just define them on one server? Tom -- ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB AMD Athlon 64 X2 C... 3 12/9/2008 11:44:30 PM DFS shares no longer working We have DFS shares for establishing our mapped drives across our 35 branch locations. Some of the DFS shares are in regional FRS replication sets for site-specific mapped drives. Yesterday, DFS shares just stopped working for some of our WinXP-SP2 clients, but only for some. We are able to access the shares via the server names, but not DFS namespaces. The only thing that happened th... 3 12/9/2008 4:20:57 AM 12 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12