Threads Replies Last Post 12 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12   Renaming DFS file Server Have a file server at a remote site that, due to an organizational consolidation, "MUST" be renamed. This server is in an active DFS replication schema. How much damage will it cause to rename it? Thanks in advance.... 2 12/8/2008 9:16:22 PM How to move replicated folder to another drive? Hi, How do I move a dfs-r replicated folder from one drive to another on the same file server? It seems that this should be easy to do, but I haven't been able to find a way to do it. The folder in question resides on a secondary server, not the primary. Thanks for any help. Jason... 6 12/8/2008 7:46:04 PM Folder not replicating after removing filter Hello, I have a DFS Replication group set up to replicate between 3 servers. This replication is working fine, for the most part. A couple of months ago, I entered a filter to exclude a specific folder from replication. This worked fine. However, I later wanted to include it in the replication, and removed the filter. It started replicating again between 2 of the servers, but on one ... 1 12/8/2008 7:44:01 PM DFS Namespaces: we have 2, one inaccessable from Server 2008 Environment: AD 2003, mix of 03 and 08 DCs A new windows 2008 server can access: \\domainname\dfsshareA but cannot access \\domainname\dfsshareB As far as I can tell, on the dfs servers the namespaces are configured in exactly the same way. I've been banging my head agaisnt ths for a while so any suggestions would be really appreciated Cheers Al... 3 12/8/2008 1:08:40 PM Namespace Shares Freezing, Direct Shares work fine. Hi Everyone, We have a Hyper-V virtual file server running Win2008 Standard 64bit. It has one share, that is in dfs (no repl partners) and published to the domain. When accessing the share through namespace "\\domainname.com\share", several users would freeze. Explorer would just completely freeze and eventually come up after 2 or 3 mins. This was affecting about 75% of our users an... 1 12/8/2008 4:35:00 AM DFS Replication Issue We have a situation where we have 3 servers: ServerA: Windows Server 2003 R2 DC ServerB: Windows Server 2003 R2 (Member Server) ServerC: Windows Server 2003 R2 (Member Server) ServerC was once promoted to a domain controller but then demoted because some of the software it needs to run would no longer work. There is also another server, lets call it ServerD which is an SBS 2003 R2 d... 1 12/5/2008 12:19:43 PM very slow dfs resolution We have 2 external domains woth a trust, have setup DFS on one domain with several servers. I try to map to the dfs root share \\domain\aushare and it takes 10 -20 seconds to map. If i map manually to the server ip and share ie. 192.168.0.1\aushare then it is quick. all the pcs on the dfs domain are in active directory. the other domain has no pcs in the domain as using novell. is there an ea... 1 12/4/2008 10:25:15 PM NTFRS Replecation error Event ID: 13508 I have 4 DC's and after running DCRPOMO one of them i cause this error in the Events (Event ID: 13508) and I also noticed that the SYSVOL was not shared all the other domain controllers are running properly. Any Sugestions what could have gone wrong??? Thanks in Advance ... 1 12/4/2008 7:31:20 AM Replicate without loadbalancing Hello! I got two Win2003 SP2 R2 Enterprise servers. Both are on the same subnet. One's in one building and the other's in another building. The first server has all the shares setup in dfs. I want to replicate all the shares and files and folders over to the second server. But I dont want to load balance the workstations between the two. Its only for backup and recovery purposes. How do... 5 12/4/2008 7:19:28 AM DfsrPrivate and w2k8 May be call me stupid, but I've not yet used Windows Vista or W2k8 and don't know how to enter the DfsrPrivate folder. So I'm not able to restore files, which were moved to this folder, or see the manifest.xml. Is there a possibiliy for Restoring / Browsing the DfsrPrivate folders with the dfs - mmc, or the command line tool dfsutil ? Or can anybody help me how I can enter such folders ... 1 12/2/2008 4:31:01 PM DFS questions relating to SIS, VSS, Quotas and more I will be deploying two servers at two different offices (80 Mbps dedicated connectivity between offices). Both server builds are identical (Dell head servers and DAS enclosures) and will be installed with "Storage Server 2003 R2 SP2 64-bit". These will be used purely for storing user folders (~1500 users) which will be configured in Active Directory (Home Folder drive letter) for each u... 3 12/2/2008 7:41:16 AM 4 files in backlog for MONTHS We have 1 replication group out of about 50 that has been displaying a 4 file backlog for about 2 months now. I've increased the staging folder to 20 GB. Stopped the shares on that server during the replication window in case the files are .pst files held open by a user's Outlook. Deleted the replication group (and associated DFSRPrivate folders) and recreated the group only to have it s... 1 12/1/2008 8:55:51 PM DFS lock open files W2008 windows server 2008 I have 3 servers in three different locations. when a user opens the file in location A, that file is locko only server ( A, B, C ) or servers A? thanks ... 4 12/1/2008 9:03:10 AM DFS Share going to wrong server Hi There, We have a domain dfs share that for some sites seems to go to the incorrect server when used in certain sites... So we have \\domain-name\patch on file servers in diffrent sites (one server per site), in my site if I go to the share I get the correct file server for my site, however in one of our other sites if I go to a PC there and connect to the share i'm connected to a fil... 3 11/27/2008 10:18:01 AM DFS R2 Browsing Namespace Extremely Slow Hello everyone. I've had DFS issues from the beginning of installation. These are two Windows 2003 R2 Standard servers that have fresh installations that are only a couple of months old. When I have implemented DFS with test shares only, with our without replication, browsing the namespace from either server becomes extremely slow, and creates, literally, hundreds of connections to po... 6 11/26/2008 3:57:03 PM Dfsutil root export bug? Windows 2008 Server x64 running standalone DFS namespace. When running a export of my DFS namespace it appears to export fine. But when I try to import doing dfsutil root import I get the following errors. It appears that the export or the import does not account for spaces in the DFS folder names. That is what seems to be to me but wanted to see if others had troubles like this and if... 3 11/21/2008 2:03:35 PM Can't edit shared files over network... just locally I just had to replace a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller that died hard (could not be demoted). After some work, it is now synchronizing AD & DNS properly and everything on that end seems to be perfect. It is a member of a couple DFS replication groups, but they appear to be replicating fine. However, I can't add or edit any files via a network path, even as Administrator. It's ... 3 11/20/2008 7:11:04 PM Experiences with Peer Software's DFS File Locking software? Hi, our company is in desperate look for a good wide area file system. However we've encountered some file-locking issues in several of our DFS. I found this product but cannot see any recommandations anywhere. http://www.peersoftware.com/solutions/high_availability/dfs_file_locking.aspx Any information/tests would greatly be appreciated. -- -- HAL07, Engineering Services, Norway... 1 11/20/2008 2:58:34 PM Problem: Missing Expected Value I am getting the following errors on all DC when running dcdiag /c /e. KB article Q312862 referenced is not very helpful to a laymen like me. Can some one please direct me to instructions to clean this up that even a caveman can understand? Thanks in advance. Jim Problem: Missing Expected Value Base Object: CN=SWSSERVER,CN=Domain System Volume (SYSVOL share... 1 11/19/2008 2:41:04 PM DFS server 2008 acces file simultaneous Hello, Do you know if on server 2008 there is something to prevent acces file simultaneous on two or more server? Thank you for help Regards ... 3 11/17/2008 5:35:17 PM DFS BSOD mup.sys Hello - I have sucessfully deployed DFS across two w2k3 R2 servers and was able to replicate and verify using diagnosic report that data is present on both target paths. When I now try testing failover by removing primary & active target DFS server and then writing a file to the DFS share I get a BSOD ( blue screen of death ) pertaining to mup.sys and DFS at address 0xB9DEC894, 0xBDED42... 4 11/17/2008 4:28:01 AM Create DFS root target, no nTFRSMember, nTFRSSubscription created Creating a new DFS root target to a member SERVER99 on 2K3 Standard using dfsgui.msc as a domain admin. The share is up and running, permissions are fine. In cmd.exe, when I do a dir \\SERVER99\Share I get the contents of the DFS root but when I dir \\SERVER99\x$\Share there are no files. \\SERVER99\Share ***is*** being added to the remoteServerName attribute of the fTDfs obje... 2 11/16/2008 1:08:57 PM server wil not replicate sysvol I have 2 servers that are both DC. On server1, I put a vb script in C: \windows\sysvol\sysvol\gcs.local\scripts. That script will not replicate to server2. I ran the FRS diag and got the following. Any suggestions? FRSDiag v1.7 on 11/12/2008 11:50:08 AM ..\GCS1 on 2008-11-12 at 11.50.08 AM ------------------------------------------------------------ Checking for errors/warnings in ... 5 11/15/2008 8:03:01 PM Can't remove a folder - returns access denied Hi, I'm using Windows 2003 SR2, and I have a folder that I can't delete, attempting to delete the folder returns: "Cannot delete 99: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use" Trying to do a search, returns no hits for a files/folder called 99. This folder was origionally part of a replication folder, which has s... 3 11/14/2008 2:28:00 PM Space saved by DFS I don't understand how Mircosoft says that using DFS saves hard drive space. Because you end up with a copy of the shares on all the DC. Right? I can see the benefit to the user but it takes up more space. Or any I missing something? Regards, DJ... 2 11/13/2008 11:09:47 PM 12 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12