Questions tagged [file-server]
A file server is a computer attached to a network that has the primary purpose of providing a location for shared disk access, i.e. shared storage of computer files (such as documents, sound files, photographs, movies, images, databases, etc.) that can be accessed by the clients that are attached to the same computer network.
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SMBServer-Operational Error 1016 on File Server 2022
I recently migrated from a 2019 file server to a 2022 OS. Users began experiencing slowness in Excel files. I did not use the same hostname and IP address as the old file server. I am using a new ...
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Migrate Windows File server keeping NTFS and share permissions (not robocopy or xcopy)
I need to copy all files from an old file server to a new file server on the same local network and preserve all permissions associated with every file. I have done this operation once successfully. ...
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Setting Up Shared User Directories on Ubuntu and QTS
Could you please help me with this setup: Two machines: Machine 1 = "workstation" (Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS): On this machine I have multiple users. Every on of this users should have a directory ...
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Audit trasspasing information
I would like to know if there is a way to audit what files a user is "passing" from the file server to their local environment. I have the event viewer enabled but I can only see which file ...
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Only able to search using UNC example: \\server\folder (Windows Server 2019)
I've had this weird issue where all users that are on a terminal server cannot search when going directly to the directory (example: D:\Shared\Folder shows 0 results). If they visit the same directory ...
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Migrating 9 virtual machines to 1 server or pc
I have a build system set up which has 5 pcs and that has a total of 9 virtual machines using Hyper-V. I want to update this infrastructure and cut out the need for 5 physical pcs. Is there a way to ...
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How to migrate User Data to OneDrive without granting administrators permissions
Performing a migration of all users "personal" files to OneDrive and I'm quite new to this all. My small organization is in the process of migrating to SharePoint and OneDrive, and our Users ...
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Add "File Server for General Use" on top of Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Cluster
We have a S2D Storage Spaces Direct cluster that we are wanting to add a General Purpose File Server to. Is it possible to use the S2D Cluster Shared Volume for the File Server role ? When i try and ...
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Office shared-disk error "We are connecting to \\server, please wait"
When browsing a fileserver direclty from Office applications as Excel/Word, it takes a long time to connect to the shared-disk, so opening/saving files are a problem (see screenshot). error loading &...
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Can't mount a NFS share on File server rule running in Windows Failover Cluster
On Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter) I've created a File Server role and created a NFS share (similar to how it's described in these instructions). The idea was to ...
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FSRM Auto apply template not applying to exisiting folders
I have set up an auto-apply template using FSRM to a path with a number of existing subfolders but when I apply it, the exisiting folders are not getting a quota created for them. There are 174 sub-...
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Limit drag & drop mess
I have a Windows Server 2016 acting as a file server with thousands of files in a well-defined tree. Different people have different access to different parts of the tree. The problem is that some ...
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Powershell Cygwin copy data with Rsync remote as variable
I have a problem with Cygwine's rsync. With a Powershell script I am trying to transfer directories from a Novell server to a Windows server The path for the source is a variable that comes from a CSV ...
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File sharing access denied error on the Windows 2016 file server. only with ONE folder
My problem is as followed: Situation I have a Windows 2016 file server. In the server role the d: drive is shared. I have many shared folders each with the name of a user and shared to that user. ...
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File Server Cluster with shared storage - options for storage
We would like to build two-node File Server Cluster with Shared Storage on VM. The issues is that our vmware set up doesn't support disk sharing. File server cluster must be available all the time of ...
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