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Administrator cannot take ownership of files

April 27, 2016, 9:58 am
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I have a Windows 2008 R2 file server. Some files seem to have lost all permissions. I have tried several methods to take ownership of these files so that I can restore the proper permissions. Here is what I have tried while logged in as the local administrator and as a domain administrator (all result in "access denied"):

  • Standard take ownership method via the GUI
  • Running explorer.exe as Administrator, then perform the usual take ownership method.
  • Using the TAKEOWN command (both on the individual file, and parent directory with /R) in an administrative command prompt.
  • Using the TAKEOWN command (both on the individual file, and parent directory with /R) in a command prompt as the "SYSTEM" user ("psexec -i -s -d cmd" from an administrative command prompt).
  • Trying all of this with UAC off/on.
  • Trying to change permissions with icacls in an administrative command prompt, and again in a SYSTEM command prompt.
  • Trying to copy the files using various accounts.
  • Trying to take ownership via the network share as a domain administrator.
  • Double-check share permissions.
  • Taking ownership of the parent folder with administrative explorer.exe, and check "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects".

While I could probably restore the files from backup, the problem remains that I won't be able to remove or overwrite the junk files. Also, there are no previous versions of these files in Shadow Copy.

Any other ideas besides rescue disks, chkdsk, and booting to safe mode (I can't bring the server down during the day)?

EDIT: I have also ensured that nobody has the file opened by using the Share and Storage Management tool.

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complex file search using built-in tools?

April 18, 2016, 4:53 pm
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for server 2012R2, how complex can the built-in file search tools handle? I have a records request with approximately 50 "AND" and "OR" terms (dates, owners, search-strings)  and I need to search our main file server (3tb) for any files that might contain any of the terms.

I looked at findstr but according to this link there are a lot of limitations in large searches.

Is there a tool I should be looking at instead?

Mark

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Work Folders keeps prompting for credentials despite using credential suppression

July 31, 2014, 6:06 am
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Hi all

I currently have Work Folders setup with my file server using ADFS authentication.  Obviously, both are running Server 2012R2.  My issue is that after the initial syncing, within a few days to a week, Work Folders will stop syncing and ask for a password.  Authentication works just fine and I used this Powershell command to suppress the credential prompt on domain joined clients:

Set-AdfsProperties -WIASupportedUserAgents ((Get-AdfsProperties).WIASupportedUserAgents + 'MS_WorkFoldersClient')

You can read more about it by searching "suppress work folders credentials" online.  I would post a link, but TechNet apparently hasn't validated my account yet...that's a whole other story....

Basically, I have Work Folders working just fine but after a while, it quits syncing and says it needs credentials.  When I click on “Manage Credentials” it automatically sends my current credentials without me entering them….which is behaving correctly because I’m suppressing the prompt.

Has anyone else encountered this?  This is really the only thing keeping me from rolling out this feature to more users.  I’d like to replace offline files with Work Folders and this really is my last hurdle.  It seems to maintain credentials for a while but I haven’t kept close enough track as to how long it stays working.  Client/server reboots don't seem to affect it either.  There are very few topics I've seen related to Work Folders, so I figured I'd ask.

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Storage Spaces, physical and logical sector sizes in the primordial pool

April 28, 2016, 10:10 am
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Hello,

I'm trying to think of how to word this so it doesn't get overly complicated, but I don't know if I can. Let me start with this: What happens when you have disks with different physical sector sizes in the pool? if I have a primordial pool that's initially comprised of disks with a physical sector size of 512 bytes, and I later add a disk with a 4K sector size, does that disk automatically get set to have a logical size of 512 bytes?

Which then follows on with, should I keep disks with different sector sizes in different pools, and then specify the virtual disks in the 4K pool to have 4K clusters? And in that situation, will Windows automatically set the logical sector size to be 4K (or do I have to do something to make sure the logical sector size is matched?), and make it so the virtual disk is aligned, as long as I set the cluster size?

Thank you!

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nodefaultadminowner not working

October 31, 2008, 12:14 pm
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Is nodefaultadminowner not supported on Windows 2008?  What do I have to do to have the owner for files created by a member of the administrators group not default to administrators?
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NTFS ACL and Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object.

November 16, 2010, 12:05 pm
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- For a folder that I created (UserA) and UserA is a member of the Local Administrators Group.
- Then (UserB) creates a file in the folder
- When I select the checkbox to "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object." I get Access Denied on all the files created by UserB.

Per this article, somewhat related scenario, (see below) I'm under the assumption this is because of the feature AAM.  If I take the suggestion to create a new Security Group and add myself (and still also part of the Administrators Group), I'm still prompted with the Access is Denied Pop-Up when trying to "Replace all child....."

What is the suggested way to  "Replace all child...." to not get Access Denied on the files created by UserB?

WORKAROUNDS?

- As a workaround?? I've been using "takeown /f X:\ /r /d y" then selecting "Replace all child"
- I've seen suggestions to run icacls with "psexec -s"

Thanks,
Dan

Article

Problem - Q1: Members of the Administrators group cannot access the folder although the Administrators group has the permission to it.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverfiles/thread/92abef9e-df68-4ef6-b8d9-041ebc1bb9a5#_Q1:_Windows_Server

 

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DsfrDiag /Syncnow bidirectional?

November 12, 2009, 12:13 pm
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Windows 2008

Is DsfrDiag /Syncnow cause a sync in both directions?  Or is it just from /Member: to /Partner:?  Or vice versa?

Thanks,
Tim C

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Mapped drive documentation

April 28, 2016, 9:03 am
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Is there any Microsoft documentation that mentions that it's not recommended to install applications [heavy custom apps] on to a Network mapped drive?

Ayan Mullick Principal Infrastructure Engineer. British Petroleum.

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Work Folders won't sync existing files

May 2, 2016, 9:50 am
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I have setup Work Folders using an existing User Share. It is configured with the Alias method. If we connect a client machine to the work folder and create a file on the client it will successfully sync that file to the server and show up in the existing folder for that user. However there are many existing files in the share that will not show up in the Work Folder. I have used the command Set-SyncServerSetting -MinimumChangeDetectionMins 1 to change the enumeration time of files that are created outside of the Work Folder client, but it is not working. Is there a way to troubleshoot why existing files will not appear in the Work Folder? Thank you!
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2008R2 Folder Share

April 26, 2016, 7:13 am
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Hi All- we have a Windows 2008R2 Server with a share set-up on a partitioned drive.   Although the Server is a member of the AD group there are no policies in place with regards to adding/removing file shares.

Is there anyway we can retrospectively find out why a share was suddenly removed.   Suspect the share was removed approx 1 week ago, but there do not appear to be any default entries created in the Event Manager.

Appreciate there are numerous options available to us now to ensure we can audit this going forward ...

cheers

- S

Is there anyway we can retrosepctively

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dfs consolidation

April 27, 2016, 1:38 am
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Hi,

I'm looking for consolidate many share's content I have in my network to single path where to target my login script.

I have already opened a post here 

I try to explain with this example:

\\mycompanydfs.com\dfs

folderforlogin

target folder 

\\server1\shareA\       folder1  folder2 file1

\\server1\shareB\       folder3 file 2

\\server1\shareC\       folder4 folder5

\\server2\shareD\       folder6 file3

when my user map the dfs \\mycompanidfs.com\dfs\folderforlogin I would like he/she will see folder1, folder2, file1, folder3, file 2, folder4, folder5, folder6, file3, filtered by original ACL

but instead the users see the content only one share randomly, for instance folder4 and folder5 (shareC content)

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Win2012 Server Service (LanMan) receives 1075 Error

April 18, 2016, 4:31 am
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Win2012 LanMan server receives 1075 error... saying dependencies are not started, but there are no dependencies.

LanMan Regedit

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I have tried installing this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2316513

..have also looked at this article:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/3316a5e0-fc2f-4300-917d-66e1527b4aa7/server-service-lanmanserver-will-not-start?forum=winserverfiles(although not quite sure what answer was)...  

This server is a AD DC.  Other than that... there is nothing really running on it.   No other machine can connect to this machine, which I assume is all related.   Suggestion / directions are welcomed


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When attempting to connect to network shares, why am I being told to "Check the spelling of the name." with Error code: 0x80004005?

September 14, 2012, 8:36 am
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Last night I upgraded my machine to Windows 8 Pro RTM.

Everything seemed to be going well, but then I tried to access a network share.

I get a window that says:

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Network Error

Windows cannot access \\{server redacted}\{path redacted}\

Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose.

Error code: 0x80004005
Unspecified error

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Clicking "Diagnose" doesn't find any issues.

One of our networking guys had the same problem when he signed in to my machine. When I signed into his Windows 7 box I was able to access the network resources just fine - so it doesn't seem to be a user account issue.

I can access some network resources but not others.  For example, I can connect to Exchange, I can connect to our TFS server. I can even resolve the server name when I ping it.  If I enter the IP of the server instead I get the same error.

My networking guys are stumped.

"We're all in it together, kid." - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer

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You don't currently have permission to access this folder

April 27, 2016, 4:17 am
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I get this message trying to open a share from Computer Management, on the local file server

What seems strange to me, is that i get this message:

The thing is that the local Administrators group on the file server, has a domain group X as a member, and I am a member of group X with the domain admin account I am logged on the server with.

The shares I try to access when I get the Warning, do NOT have the group X added with permissions in the Security tab

If the group X has been given Full control or Modify permissions explicitly on other shares (in the Security tab), I can access those shares without the Warning

Why is this? I am Administrator on this server because of group X, so I don't get it...

Freddy

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Windows Storage server 2012 r2 - File server implementation

April 27, 2016, 5:17 pm
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Hello.

I would like to setup the file server implementation and ACL in Windows storage server 2012.

Folder structure is below. folder2 is main folder, 3,4,5 are sub folders.

2 - 3

   L 4

   L 5

My design concept

-I have 4 security groups in AD. 4 security group names are All group, group3, group4, group5.

-All groups should access to folder2 and should be showing 3,4,5 folders (just showing folder list)

-Group3 users should have read and write permission to folder3. And folder 4,5 folders showing list. But, This groups can't access folder 4 and 5

-Group4 users should have read and write permission to folder4. And folder 3,5 folders showing list. But, This groups can't access folder 3 and 5

-Group3 users should have read and write permission to folder5. And folder 3,4 folders showing list. But, This groups can't access folder 3 and 4

How can I permissions setup it on above concept? Please describe in detail. Please help me. Thanks!


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access copied files

April 27, 2016, 7:06 pm
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our company using active directory roaming profiles as a login windows, lately we discover that if we copy the files from our servers to local, we just can only open it when we connect to our intranet, but once we disable the network or disconnect from our intranet, we cannot open the files, all office files type, and also PDF format, but we still can open the txt file via notepad, what I want to ask is, how can it happen? I tried the inheritance method, but it is not working, what should I do?, should we make another group policy? or what else, hope someone can help, thank you
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Grant user right to read file/folder NTFS permissions but not read the file itself

April 29, 2016, 1:26 am
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Hi there,

there's a kinda complicated request from IT Security guys:

Shared Folder on Win 2012 R2 Fileserver has a set of NTFS permissions for various groups/users.

ITSec group needs access to the shared folder to audit NTFS permissions (view security tab in properties of a file/folder)

But at the same time ITSec group doesn't want to be able to read the actual file (e.g. open a docx,pdf,whatever)

Trying to get my head around this, but so far no luck.

Any help appreciated

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File Sharing

April 28, 2016, 5:27 am
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Hi,

Want to Share A folder (name) Share. Under Share Folder Create Folders in the name of Departments. Want User can Create Files & Folder in any Department instead of Parent Share Folder. OS is Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 with AD.

Tried but not working. Please help.J

Shiju Chacko Stay Happy Stay Ahead :)

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DFS Replication Issue

May 5, 2016, 1:16 pm
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Hello!

We setup a new DFS namespace server and a DFS replication group for 2 file servers within the same location, the issue we see is that if I create a new file or a foler using the name space, it takes at ~10 mts for the data to be replicated. When I cheked the respective file server I could see a warning as follows, but we know 4GB of staging space is more than enough for the data that is hosted on these servers for replication.

The DFS Replication service has detected that the staging space in use for the replicated folder at local path F:\Citrix is above the high watermark. The service will attempt to delete the oldest staging files. Performance may be affected.
 
Additional Information:
Staging Folder: F:\Citrix\DfsrPrivate\Staging\ContentSet{0554B179-D471-4532-9A84-926C9EC2038D}-{955D72A0-5022-4AF6-834A-3FDB641CEB86}
Configured Size: 4096 MB
Space in Use: 3699 MB
High Watermark: 90%
 
Low Watermark: 60%

Could someone please assist ?

Thank you!

RG

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Work Folders - Not Functioning Correctly - Sync Stopped. Blocked by security policies

April 7, 2015, 1:07 pm
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Currently trying to deploy Work Folders so that when a user logs in, all of his/her settings are pointing to the local Work Folders which are then synchronized with the Work Folders server.  I have found the follow post regarding someone experiencing a similar issue to mine however it doesn't appear to be the exact same issue as the poster's fix doesn't fix my issue.  (See: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bf6b77de-349c-454e-8746-f26e76c8f3a3/work-folders-not-working-on-second-computer?forum=winserver8gen)

I am seeing the following error - in the Work Folders section under control panel - on my account that I've configured to use WORK FOLDERS:

Note: The "manage credentials" link on the left-hand side when clicked displays the following:

Any thoughts? 

Thanks,

Robert


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