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AWS EC2: All users Lost Access to D:\ - Access Denied

I have seen a number of similar problems reported in my searches, leading me to a number of questions including: Access to D drive lost even as an administrator (Windows 10) Domain Admins group denied access to d: drive I am seeing the same symptoms…
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using a fast drive as an emulated cache for a slow drive

Hello I have a huge network drive from the cloud (webdav drive mount as a local directory) which is quite slow, I would like to use a fast local drive as a cache for the slow drive and the whole thing mount transparently as a unique drive or…
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Setting up a virtual ftp directory that points to another computer

I have II5 sitting on an old Windows 2000 Professional box. It has an FTP site there that allows me to access files. It works great, no problem at all. However, now I need to setup a virtual directory that points to a share on another computer on…
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Mounting an old LVM hard drive

I am trying to mount an old linux hard drive. It was the old servers hard drive stuck in the new server via a USB port. I am following the instructions on this page: Mounting an old LVM hard drive in Fedora 17 gives error message However I am stuck…
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How do I add new users so the drives are mapped upon login?

In an existing Windows Server 2008 domain the users added by professional IT administrators automatically mapped drives when they logged onto any office machine. The new users I've added, however, don't appear to be mapping drives as expected. My…
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AWS Windows Drive Letter Device Mapping and Naming

How to change assigned letter for Ephemeral drives automatically? Answers part of my question. I'm not sure how to, after assigning a drive letter in ec2config, to then rename the drive. Not re-letter, that was already done via the drive mapping…
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Command to enable/disable USB portable drive on the fly without rebooting Win2003 Server

Is there any command or 3rd-party tool to enable/disable USB portable drive on the fly without rebooting the Win2003 Server that it is plugged into? This is for enabling the drive before a backup job starts, and for disabling it after backup…
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WS2003 network drive gets deactivated after restart

windows server 2003 OS runs sql backups regularly and periodically i have to restart once in a while. when the restart takes place the network drive(H) becomes deactivated which i do not understand why. when this happens my quick solution right now…
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Dell R210 eSata not recognizing Sata Drive

We have a Dell R210 with an external Sata connection. When connecting the Sata drive through the eSata connection, the server does not recognize the additional drive. What we have tried: Verified that the drive was turned on when booting the…
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mounting ntfs usb drive in linux (with permissioning)

I'm trying to mount an external harddrive in linux. I added the following line in /etc/fstab /dev/sdf1 /path/to/my/mount ntfs defaults,umask=022 0 0 and then do sudo mount -a Everything mounts fine (shows up in df, etc.)…
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Trouble mounting network drive

I'm using the following command to mount a network drive: sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.15.10/web -o username=user,password=pass /mnt/fileserver I've verified that the location, username, and password are all correct with the network administrator. …
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Windows Server 2003 not automatically assigning drive letter to external drives

My newly rebuilt Windows Server 2003 doesn't automatically assign drive letters to external usb devices. I have to manually open the Disk Management Console and assign it a drive letter every time. It does this with two different drives in all USB…
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Problem with gmailfs

I've got a little with gmailfs. I'm trying to mount gmail accout as a local file system on my Debian Lenny using the following command. mount -t gmailfs none /mnt/gmail -o username=gmail_username@gmail.com,password=mypassword,fsname=SixSixSix But…
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Dual hard disks on Vista - what goes where?

I'm setting up some Vista boxes with dual hard drives (a 250GB and a 1TB). What should I install on both disks for best performance? They are for general use by developers. Windows and programs on the first, data on the second? Should the temp…
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Drives disconnected from RAID array without apparent reason

I have owned a Dell PowerEdge R720 for some time and have been using it as my personal NAS. Here is the RAID configuration (disks in the indicated order) : 2 x 146 GB disks in 15K in RAID 1 12 x 1 TB disks in 10K in RAID 5 2 free slots I have an…
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