Effect of Disabling NetBIOS and SMB in Financial Reporting

HI-
I've done testing for some times, I haven't encountered any errors but I'm still curious does anyone ever do disabling NetBIOS and SMB on windows server, and encountered problem with workspace, FR, or HFM?
Regards,
Will

Hi,
Here is the possible way to achieve it:
1. Insert a row (may be as row 1) in the report which has product as "User prompt".
2. mark this row as hidden always
3. User other rows as level0 of product in row 1
4. Use MEMBERALIAS in your header to use product as dimension & row as row1
Hope it helps !!
Edited by: user8628169 on Jun 22, 2011 10:53 AM

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(if Windows, what version of server software,
please)
Windows 2003 Server.
and when you enter the servername/IPaddress, end it
with ":445)
I'll try this. So far, I put the :445 at the end of the server name - it had no influence: SMB://[Server_IP]:445/[Share]. Also, putting it to the end has no effect. It still tries to port 139.
like:
SMB://[Server_IP]/[Share]:445
Is that what you are trying?
Yes, this exactly - and the same in Finder. The above just does not work, mount_smbfs stubbornly tries to connect to the port 139 and so does Finder.
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Setting the "NET CONFIG SERVER /AUTODISCONNECT:-1" to not drop client
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2, How do I disable SMB2 and SMB3 on clients for troubleshooting purposes the server to resolve problems with shared files (multi user access)
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4. Does sc.exe have a bug in it?
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Hi,
I made a test in our testing enviroment, everything works fine to disable SMB2 and 3. For your problem, in my opinion, as I didn't find any specific report about this error, it would be better to use Process Monitor to capture the trace when running the
command.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
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I've downloaded process monitor and loaded it. I filtered for cmd.exe started capture and saved a 1mb file.
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It appears that I have to disable from SMB2 and SMB3 and ensure that the clients only use SMB1.
If SMB2 & SMB3 are disabled from the lanmanworkstation service the clients will not do any caching even if the server has disabled the share cache (offline files for that share).
The problem with the "Circular reference" error message is standard across all versions of windows that have "smb2" or "smb2 and smb3". Can you recreate that problem? Or is it working on your windows computer and on the machines
downloaded from modern.ie ?
My testing has shown that the command "sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi" does not work. Therefore that's the one I want to resolve first. By resolving that I may be able to get the clients accessing the share to behave
themselves and use the shared files correctly as they always did from Windows 95/NT4 through to Windows XP and 2003/2008 server.
I'm unable to recreate the problem with multiple users having access to shared database files on windows 2012 server from Windows 7 clients were the access to the files drops once a day or once every couple of days.
Kindest Regards
Robert

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