DFS issues

2009-05-27 Thread John Aldrich
We have two machines set up with DFS replication between them for the files. It seems that one of the machines lost synchronization with the other and has been a bit behind the other server by about 30 minutes or so. That is to say that there was a different version of the same file on each

Re: DFS issues

2009-05-27 Thread Sean Martin
I would focus on resolving the memory leak issue you mentioned. Here is some helpful resources specific to DFS (in no particular order): List of currently available hotfixes for Distributed File System (DFS) technologies in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows Server 2003 R2:

DFS issues

2009-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
My CFO and one of my accounting people are complaining about some strange behavior of disappearing / reappearing files starting about the time we implemented DFS. Now, as far as I can tell from looking at the folders on the two DFS servers, the files are there on both servers. I'm NOT looking at

Re: DFS issues

2009-04-30 Thread Jonathan Link
Offline files? On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:31 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: My CFO and one of my accounting people are complaining about some strange behavior of “disappearing / reappearing” files starting about the time we implemented DFS. Now, as far as I can tell from

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
-gigabyte range. Now we have about 120 Gigs free on the server. About how much do I need to keep available? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DFS issues My CFO and one

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DFS issues Offline files? On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:31 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: My CFO and one of my accounting people are complaining about some strange behavior of disappearing / reappearing files starting about

Re: DFS issues

2009-04-30 Thread Sean Martin
*To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* DFS issues My CFO and one of my accounting people are complaining about some strange behavior of “disappearing / reappearing” files starting about the time we implemented DFS. Now, as far as I can tell from looking at the folders on the two DFS servers

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DFS issues Sizing the staging directory really depends on the rate of replication. Is the majority of data dynamic or static? To give you an example, we host user home directories and terminal service roaming

Re: DFS issues

2009-04-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:45 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: However, I do have a question – how much space do I need to make sure I have available for “staging” of DFS? I believe it's basically the size of the changed files that haven't finished replicating yet. So it

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-28 Thread John Aldrich
, from my desktop, to delete files out of the same folder she was having problems with. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 4:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DFS issues Sorry to jump in so late

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-27 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DFS issues When I looked at the properties of the shared folder on the second server, the read only checkbox was checked. [cid:image001.jpg@01C9C73F.EBB62660

DFS issues

2009-04-21 Thread John Aldrich
We just recently switched from using Synctoy for keeping our two servers (DC/File Server combos) synchronized to using DFS. I just started having some issues after it's been in place for a couple weeks. the public file share (really mostly a public file dump) started being read-only to people for

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-21 Thread Brian Desmond
What do you mean permissions set to read only? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DFS issues We just recently switched from using

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-21 Thread John Aldrich
When I looked at the properties of the shared folder on the second server, the read only checkbox was checked. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DFS issues What do

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-21 Thread Brian Desmond
: DFS issues When I looked at the properties of the shared folder on the second server, the read only checkbox was checked. [John-Aldrich][Tile-Tools] From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DFS issues What

RE: DFS issues

2009-04-21 Thread John Aldrich
...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DFS issues Do you have any filter drivers e.g. quota apps, antivirus, open file backup, file screening, etc? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: John