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HOW : single VHD shared between 2 different VMs

I need to share single VHDX with 1 large partition containing no OS, just plain files (mainly pictures) and promote it to 2 different VMs with 2different OS at 1time : VM Windows with stock keeping ...
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Active Directory - grant access rights to a user that belongs to multiple groups

I have a Windows 2012 Server with file server role. I have users in my active directory which are defined by 3 things : country - service - role I have about 10 countries, 10 services and 5 roles. How ...
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Windows File Server Rebuild

I'm rebuilding a Windows file server for our corporate share. Is there any reason to use Dynamic Disk over Basic Disk or is it better to just leave it as Basic?
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Share a folder on server with a workstation

Suppose we have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (MS Virtual Machine), than we access remotely via RDP to edit some files in a folder (say, "D:\MyProject"). The problem is that we have a team of 3 ...
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Cant access disk space on System Storage DS4700

Im running a Windows Server 2012 R2 and I use IBM's System Storage DS4700. I used to have access to the disks thorugh the File Explorer and recently for some reason im not able to see that disk ...
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Disable file locks on a read-only Windows File Share

Case On a Windows Server (2012R2 or 2016), I want to configure a file share offering a following functionality some users, publishers group, have a write access to the share; these users are ...
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Equivalent of browseable = no in Windows

What's the equivalent of the smb.conf setting browsable = no in Windows? It's not just adding a $ to the share name to make it a hidden share. Running net view \\server /all on a for a Linux ...
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Samba file sharing on Server 2012 R2 AD domain

Overview I currently have a CentOS 7 server set up as a VM host using KVM. It has a 4TB (2x2TB mirrors) ZFS array that will be used for VM and file storage. This was set up as part of a process to ...
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How am I granted access to a protected Windows share without entering a password?

I was logged in to a local administrator account on a Windows 2012 R2 server yesterday and noticed I was granted immediate (passwordless) access to the C$ admin share on another 2012 R2 server. These ...
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Work folders and domain guest

I have setup Workfolders on my Windows Server 2012 R2. This is all working fine, however I want to be able to use my domain guest user on my domain computers. This is not possible according to this ...
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Periodic Share Access Fails

We have a file server running Windows Server 2012 R2. It also hosts various VMs. The server has 2 NIC cards set up in a Team (Switch Independent, Dynamic, None) setup. And the Hyper-V vEthernet runs ...
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SeaFile HTML Customization

I have installed Seafile on Windows Server 2012 R2 Successfully. I am now currently branding the install and have changed the logo/colours fine. However, I wish to override some of the HTML (Like ...
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Permissions On Folder Give Me Access Denied. Why?

I have a user (dAdmin) and that user is a member of the domain admin's group and is also a member of the local server's (serverA) Administrators group. On the folder (fShare) I set it up as a share ...
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What causes PC's to be unable to read certain other PC's shared folders even though other devices can read them?

I have a private domain where folders are shared to EVERYONE (temporarily during setup). All PC's can click into any other PC in File Explorer's Network list, but one specific PC can't connect to the ...
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Robocopy script copied permissions/subfolders everything but NOT shares

I ran this command on my new server: ROBOCOPY "\\oldserver\e$\folder" "e:\folder\" /COPYALL /SEC /MIR /LOG:logs.txt It copies all permission and mirrored my folder but later I realized that shares ...
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