This setup I've walked into looks worse by the minute. I'm not entirely sure PVS is suitable for what they are trying to do here. On the bright side, it may need a lot of work to sort out properly :-)
On 24 February 2012 13:23, Webster <webs...@carlwebster.com> wrote: > I tried to use DFS-R for PVS 5.6 SP2 and couldn’t make it work. That is > when I found out the only PVS6 supports DFS replicated vDisks. **** > > ** ** > > Carl Webster**** > > Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional**** > > http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/>**** > > ** ** > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, February 24, 2012 7:11 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Interesting change password failure**** > > ** ** > > 5.1. The replication is done by DFS (not sure whether that's a good idea > or not)**** > > On 24 February 2012 13:06, Webster <webs...@carlwebster.com> wrote:**** > > What version of PVS and what are you using for vDisk replication?**** > > **** > > **** > > Carl Webster**** > > Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional**** > > http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/>**** > > **** > > *From:* Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, February 24, 2012 6:57 AM**** > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Interesting change password failure**** > > **** > > That's the thing, its showing as private when booted but the console is > definitely saying standard. There's a problem with replication of the disk > images between the PVS stores which I think has caused it, but its > certainly giving me a major headache. Very weird!**** > > Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird**** > ------------------------------ > > *From: *Webster <webs...@carlwebster.com> **** > > *Date: *Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:49:41 +0000**** > > *To: *NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>**** > > *ReplyTo: *"NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > >**** > > *Subject: *RE: Interesting change password failure**** > > **** > > Standard mode vDisks don’t just “come up” in Private Image mode unless > someone went into the console and made the change or was a super friggin’ > genius and figured out the extremely cryptic command line to flip the > switch.**** > > **** > > Carl Webster**** > > Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional**** > > http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/>**** > > **** > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, February 24, 2012 5:22 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Interesting change password failure**** > > **** > > Poor McAfee....so hated. Actually I shut down the McAfee services and got > the same error, but the agent was still installed, so I don't know whether > this counts as a pass or not. I would prefer to test with the whole thing > removed to be sure. > > However as somehow a vDisk in Standard mode managed to come up in Private > mode and has subsequently written a load of apps into the base server image > that shouldn't be there, I now have a different problem to solve first. 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