I am in the process of migrating all the data from one (1 TB) volume (not C:) on an AD server to a new 4 TB one. I have copied all the data including the FolderRedirection and Profile stuff as well as some large shared folders. There are about 25 shares pointed to the drive E: (the 1 TB one), all with complex permissions setup. I have copied all the data to the same folder [...]

Server is running Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Rest are Server 2008 R2 Standard I think its an issue with the credentials that it’s using? This is a backup server that connects to the admin shares of the other servers and backs them up. It has connectivity issues, it can connect to some machines but not others. But this issue is unique to this server. I can ping the others servers, and if I run the [...]

Is it secure for a firewall to allow NetBIOS connections from the internal network to the DMZ? If not secure, what are the risks? If secure, what is the FUD about and what are the counterarguments? No. Typically you don’t want your servers where they trust any other systems because that means they could compromise the DMZ server and tunnel using that trusted relationship. That means no domains, etc. Therefore, NetBIOS is not exactly useful [...]

What tools (out of the box or otherwise) do you utilize to give useful/verbose information about what might be causing an issue with windows sharing? I have a specific example below, but I’d like to see some general answers for how to collect data on the performance/stability characteristics of windows shares. Edit: As Izzy noted below, my specific example might be indicating a deeper issue, so I am looking for some specific tools/logs I can [...]

I am running 10.5.6 Client as a mini server and am having problems with AFP shares. All clients are OS X 10.5.7 I have created three users for ‘File Sharing’ only on the ‘server’. I have created groups and placed these users into specific groups. I have created ACL’s to give each group access to certain shares. Two of those users can read and write to any share, one user cannot write to the shares, [...]

I am setting up in a test environment and need to save some paths in a database but dont want to edit the paths when we go to production. My idea being that I could create a share on both servers and use a generic name like LocalHost instead of TestServer for the paths. Example: \LocalHostDocs I have used a mapped drive temporarily but was curious if there is another magic word like localhost that [...]

I have an interesting problem… I need the local SYSTEM account on one server to access a specific network share on another server. Due to other reasons I can’t use a regular domain account for the time being. Using “psexec -s” I have played around with connecting to network shares under the local SYSTEM account with “net use”. Since I am in a domain, I can simply add the DOMAINCOMPUTER$ account to the share and [...]

I’m configuring a build machine using Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop as the platform. The first user and of course admin is “developer”, and then I created lots of user accounts so people could access shares and other services on the machine. I’ve got to provide developers with access to certain scripts and SDKs. So, I created a folder in the developer’s home directory and added other users to the developer group. This works, but I think [...]

I have folder to be shared on Window Server 2008. If I disable the firewall then the Mac can see the folder. When I enable the firewall the Mac can no longer connect. Which rules do I have to create in the firewall to allow access to the shares? Go to the firewall settings in the Windows Control Panel Click “Allow Program through Windows Firewall” Tick the box for “File and Printer Sharing” Edit: As [...]

Right, what we wish (or need) to do is to migrate a NAS from a old machine to a new one. problem is, we wish to keep the folder hierarchie intact, and all the settings and shares. Now I vaguely recall microsoft used to have a tool to do exactly this. It would copy the folders exactly, with the rights intact, and then remove the shares on the old machine and reactivate them on the [...]