Sharing Volumes within a Network...

I have been recently been able to access my father's entire external hard drive (his iMac has Leopard) from my MacBook. However, when I try to share my external hard drive, I cannot seem to find out how to do this, as I am using Tiger. The only thing that will share is the Public Folder, which I don't want to use. So my questions are:
*1. How can I, using Tiger, share my external hard drive?*
And if that's possible,
*2. How can I password protect it?*
Thanks for your advice!
Message was edited by: =M.R.P.=

If you log into a remote machine as one of the users of that machine, you will have access to whatever that user has access to - admin users also have access to the root directory of the disk. To share an external volume with Tiger, you can use SharePoints to set up the share.

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It's worth double checking the device is on the correct network.
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Unable to configure Time Machine backups to shared volume on network

I've been unable to coax Time Machine (TM) into using a networked shared volume that SuperDuper! accesses without a hitch.
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Hyper-V cluster Backup causes virtual machine reboots for common Cluster Shared Volumes members.

I am having a problem where my VMs are rebooting while other VMs that share the same CSV are being backed up. I have provided all the information that I have gather to this point below. If I have missed anything, please let me know.
My HyperV Cluster configuration:
5 Node Cluster running 2008R2 Core DataCenter w/SP1. All updates as released by WSUS that will install on a Core installation
Each Node has 8 NICs configured as follows:
NIC1 - Management/Campus access (26.x VLAN)
NIC2 - iSCSI dedicated (22.x VLAN)
NIC3 - Live Migration (28.x VLAN)
NIC4 - Heartbeat (20.x VLAN)
NIC5 - VSwitch (26.x VLAN)
NIC6 - VSwitch (18.x VLAN)
NIC7 - VSwitch (27.x VLAN)
NIC8 - VSwitch (22.x VLAN)
Following hotfixes additional installed by MS guidance (either while build or when troubleshooting stability issue in Jan 2013)
KB2531907 - Was installed during original building of cluster
KB2705759 - Installed during troubleshooting in early Jan2013
KB2684681 - Installed during troubleshooting in early Jan2013
KB2685891 - Installed during troubleshooting in early Jan2013
KB2639032 - Installed during troubleshooting in early Jan2013
Original cluster build was two hosts with quorum drive. Initial two hosts were HST1 and HST5
Next host added was HST3, then HST6 and finally HST2.
NOTE: HST4 hardware was used in different project and HST6 will eventually become HST4
Validation of cluster comes with warning for following things:
Updates inconsistent across hosts
  I have tried to manually install "missing" updates and they were not applicable
  Most likely cause is different build times for each machine in cluster
   HST1 and HST5 are both the same level because they were built at same time
   HST3 was not rebuilt from scratch due to time constraints and it actually goes back to Pre-SP1 and has a larger list of updates that others are lacking and hence the inconsistency
   HST6 was built from scratch but has more updates missing than 1 or 5 (10 missing instead of 7)
   HST2 was most recently built and it has the most missing updates (15)
Storage - List Potential Cluster Disks
  It says there are Persistent Reservations on all 14 of my CSV volumes and thinks they are from another cluster.
  They are removed from the validation set for this reason. These iSCSI volumes/disks were all created new for
  this cluster and have never been a part of any other cluster.
When I run the Cluster Validation wizard, I get a slew of Event ID 5120 from FailoverClustering. Wording of error:
  Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume12' ('Cluster Disk 13') is no longer available on this node because of
  'STATUS_MEDIA_WRITE_PROTECTED(c00000a2)'. All I/O will temporarily be queued until a path to the
  volume is reestablished.
Under Storage and Cluster Shared VOlumes in Failover Cluster Manager, all disks show online and there is no negative effect of the errors.
Cluster Shared Volumes
We have 14 CSVs that are all iSCSI attached to all 5 hosts. They are housed on an HP P4500G2 (LeftHand) SAN.
I have limited the number of VMs to no more than 7 per CSV as per best practices documentation from HP/Lefthand
VMs in each CSV are spread out amonst all 5 hosts (as you would expect)
Backup software we use is BackupChain from BackupChain.com.
Problem we are having:
When backup kicks off for a VM, all VMs on same CSV reboot without warning. This normally happens within seconds of the backup starting
What have to done to troubleshoot this:
We have tried rebalancing our backups
  Originally, I had backup jobs scheduled to kick off on Friday or Saturday evening after 9pm
  2 or 3 hosts would be backing up VMs (Serially; one VM per host at a time) each night.
  I changed my backup scheduled so that of my 90 VMs, only one per CSV is backing up at the same time
   I mapped out my Hosts and CSVs and scheduled my backups to run on week nights where each night, there
   is only one VM backed up per CSV. All VMs can be backed up over 5 nights (there are some VMs that don't
   get backed up). I also staggered the start times for each Host so that only one Host would be starting
   in the same timeframe. There was some overlap for Hosts that had backups that ran longer than 1 hour.
  Testing this new schedule did not fix my problem. It only made it more clear. As each backup timeframe
  started, whichever CSV the first VM to start was on would have all of their VMs reboot and come back up.
I then thought maybe I was overloading the network still so I decided to disable all of the scheduled backup
and run it manually. Kicking off a backup on a single VM, in most cases, will cause the reboot of common
CSV members.
Ok, maybe there is something wrong with my backup software.
  Downloaded a Demo of Veeam and installed it onto my cluster.
  Did a test backup of one VM and I had not problems.
  Did a test backup of a second VM and I had the same problem. All VMs on same CSV rebooted
Ok, it is not my backup software. Apparently it is VSS. I have looked through various websites. The best troubleshooting
site I have found for VSS in one place it on BackupChain.com (http://backupchain.com/hyper-v-backup/Troubleshooting.html)
I have tested almost every process on there list and I will lay out results below:
  1. I have rebooted HST6 and problems still persist
  2. When I run VSSADMIN delete shadows /all, I have no shadows to delete on any of my 5 nodes
   When I run VSSADMIN list writers, I have no error messages on any writers on any node...
  3. When I check the listed registry key, I only have the build in MS VSS writer listed (I am using software VSS)
  4. When I run VSSADMIN Resize ShadowStorge command, there is no shadow storage on any node
  5. I have completed the registration and service cycling on HST6 as laid out here and most of the stuff "errors"
   Only a few of the DLL's actually register.
  6. HyperV Integration Services were reconciled when I worked with MS in early January and I have no indication of
   further issue here.
  7. I did not complete the step to delete the Subscriptions because, again, I have no error messages when I list writers
  8. I removed the Veeam software that I had installed to test (it hadn't added any VSS Writer anyway though)
  9. I can't realistically uninstall my HyperV and test VSS
  10. Already have latest SPs and Updates
  11. This is part of step 5 so I already did this. This seems to be a rehash of various other stratgies
I have used the VSS Troubleshooter that is part of BackupChain (Ctrl-T) and I get the following error:
  ERROR: Selected writer 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer' is in failed state!
  - Status: 8 (VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_PREPARE_SNAPSHOT)
  - Writer Failure code: 0x800423f0 (<Unknown error code>)
  - Writer ID: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
  - Instance ID: {d55b6934-1c8d-46ab-a43f-4f997f18dc71}
  VSS snapshot creation failed with result: 8000FFFF
VSS errors in event viewer. Below are representative errors I have received from various Nodes of my cluster:
I have various of the below spread out over all hosts except for HST6
Source: VolSnap, Event ID 10, The shadow copy of volume took too long to install
Source: VolSnap, Event ID 16, The shadow copies of volume x were aborted because volume y, which contains shadow copy storage for this shadow copy, wa force dismounted.
Source: VolSnap, Event ID 27, The shadow copies of volume x were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened.
I only have one instance of each of these and both of the below are from HST3
Source: VSS, Event ID 12293, Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details RevertToSnashot [hr = 0x80042302, A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an
unexpected error.
Source: VSS, Event ID 8193, Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine GetOverlappedResult. hr = 0x80070057, The parameter is incorrect.
So, basically, everything I have tried has resulted in no success towards solving this problem.
I would appreciate anything assistance that can be provided.
Thanks,
Charles J. Palmer
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Tim,
Thanks for the reply. I ran the first two commands and got this:
Name
Role Metric
Cluster Network 1
3  10000
Cluster Network 2 - HeartBeat                              1   1300
Cluster Network 3 - iSCSI                                    0  10100
Cluster Network 4 - LiveMigration                         1   1200
When you look at the properties of each network, this is how I have it configured:
Cluster Network 1 - Allow cluster network communications on this network and Allow clients to connect through this network (26.x subnet)
Cluster Network 2 - Allow cluster network communications on this network. New network added while working with Microsoft support last month. (28.x subnet)
Cluster Network 3 - Do not allow cluster network communications on this network. (22.x subnet)
Cluster Network 4 - Allow cluster network communications on this network. Existing but not configured to be used by VMs for Live Migration until MS corrected. (20.x subnet)
Should I modify my metrics further or are the current values sufficient.
I worked with an MS support rep because my cluster (once I added the 5th host) stopped being able to live migrate VMs and I had VMs host jumping on startup. It was a mess for a couple of days. They had me add the Heartbeat network as part of the solution
to my problem. There doesn't seem to be anywhere to configure a network specifically for CSV so I would assume it would use (based on my metrics above) Cluster Network 4 and then Cluster Network 2 for CSV communications and would fail back to the Cluster Network
1 if both 2 and 4 were down/inaccessible.
As to the iSCSI getting a second NIC, I would love to but management wants separation of our VMs by subnet and role and hence why I need the 4 VSwitch NICs. I would have to look at adding an additional quad port NIC to my servers and I would be having to
use half height cards for 2 of my 5 servers for that to work.
But, on that note, it doesn't appear to actually be a bandwidth issue. I can run a backup for a single VM and get nothing on the network card (It caused the reboots before any real data has even started to pass apparently) and still the problem occurs.
As to Backup Chain, I have been working with the vendor and they are telling my the issue is with VSS. They also say they support CSV as well. If you go to this page (http://backupchain.com/Hyper-V-Backup-Software.html)
they say they support CSVs. Their tech support has been very helpful but unfortunately, nothing has fixed the problem.
What is annoying is that every backup doesn't cause a problem. I have a daily backup of one of our machines that runs fine without initiating any additional reboots. But most every other backup job will trigger the VMs on the common CSV to reboot.
I understood about the updates but I had to "prove" it to the MS tech I was on the phone with and hence I brought it up. I understand on the storage as well. Why give a warning for something that is working though... I think that is just a poor indicator
that it doesn't explain that in the report.
At a loss for what else I can do,
Charles J. Palmer

Lost Volumes choices in Network - no auto find

I am currently running 10.4.3 on an imac which is connected to a windows 2000 server enviroment for file sharing. In the past, I could click on network and see the multiple volumes within our company's network, log on to the windows volume and mount those drives.
Over the last week, I have lost that capability as no volumes appear for network when I click on netork, I only see server and a local mac machine. I can only connect by going to Go/connect to server in finder to connect to a server
Any idea how I can get the previous function back?
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Problems with Spotlight searching of shared volumes

According to: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#spotlight, I should be able to "...search any connected Mac with Personal File Sharing enabled or a file server that’s sharing its files."
It doesn't specify what "file server", so I presume it means Spotlight should be able to search any mounted shared volume (assuming, of course, that indexing has been enabled).
I have a NAS device that I want to be able to search with Spotlight. According to mdutil, the volume is enabled for indexing, but I don't see any results when I search under "Shared" in Finder via Cmd+F. (I checked, and there's no .Spotlight folders on the volume.)
From what I recall, under Tiger you could manually specify a network volume to index, but if you dismounted the volume, you'd have to re-enable indexing on next mount. This worked for other file systems (such as Fat32 & NTFS), as well as for HFS+ drives.
According to mdutil in Leopard, the volume is still enabled for indexing even across dismounts. The NAS drive is not HFS+ formatted, but uses XFS.
I've tried deleting the index, to no avail.
Has anyone successfully used Spotlight to search mounted volumes on volumes not shared via another Mac?
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You have not missed anything.... Leopard promises but does NOT deliver.
I use an AFP server with Bonjour enabled. And NO NO NO Spotlight search is possible on this network volume...
This is outrageous and FALSE information....
Oh and - that Leopard is Sporting 300 new features is false info too.... Not even the "What is New in Leopard" says anything about 300 features.. But it sounds great doesn't it....

How do I connect to a Windows Workgroup and mount a shared volume?

I have set up a network at home with my Mac G5 and my PC. I have a workgroup called "HOME". The PC can see my mac drive as a network place and I can access and browse it perfectly fine.
However I have a drive on my PC which I have set up as a shared volume on the PC. I want to mount that shared volume on my Mac. When I set up the share on the PC, I am not prompted to enter a password, and the only password I am aware of is the one I use to log on.
According to the instructions I am supposed to enter the IP address and a "sharename", but I have no idea what the sharename is. If I enter the share name of the volume I want to mount, I get a dialog box which requires a password. It sees the "HOME" workgroup and that is already filled out in the Workgroup window.
It has entered my Mac administrator account name in the Name box. I don't know if this is what name it needs, but what ever combination of names and passwords I use, including my PC logon name and password, I always get the error message "cannot connect because the name or password is not correct".
I have tried using different formats for the smb://Servername/sharename address, but everything I have tried gives the same result.
I have seen many other postings on this subject, all with similar problems, but so far I've yet to see an answer. A disscussion from 2004 said this was a known issue, but surely there must have been a fix by now?
I have read many of the mac documents on this subject but none specifically tells you what the sharename is and how you set a password for it.
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OK - I have answered my own question, so if anyone else has this problem, you may like to know!
I needed to know what sharename to use to log on. On the Windows PC I was under the imprression that the windows log on was my user name. But if you right click on the My Computer and go to manage, you will see Local Users and Groups. Under Users, you will see all the user accounts on the PC. Even though I only ever set up one and it was called "David" that doesn't actually count as the user name.
If you look at the headings at the top, you will see that whatever account you think you are in, the chances are it actually has the name "User". It is what ever is in the Name column that the Mac needs, not what is in the Full Name column which is what you log on as. You can't change this, but when you connect to server, you can enter the SMB script smb://USER@(name of PC or IP address)/share name.
If you wish to mount a volume rather than a shared folder, simply type in the windows drive letter followed by the "$" - ie D$. The password is your log on password on the PC. Otherwise you can set up a folder share on the PC in the usual way, and give it a name. This will be the share name you enter in your smb script.
NONE of this is very clear in any of the Mac Networking Help guides that I have trawled through, so if they were to add it, you might help some more people...
Thanks,
David
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Hyper V hosts with Cluster Shared Volume do not provide Shared VHDX ability

Hi there, i've configured a pair of Hyper V hosts (UCS B230 M2) with SAN-Boot and access to a Shared Fiber Channel LUN.
No matter what I try, when I add a SCSI Adapter and one VHDX virtual disk to a VM, the option for "Advanced" never shows up therefore I can not share the VHDX file between another VM, which prevents any VM based clustering from working (IE: Clustered
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Here are the settings I have configured:
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn265980.aspx
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn282283.aspx
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Cluster Shared Volume present on both HyperV hosts
VM created within the Cluster Shared Volume
VM Booted up and Windows 2012 has been installed
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I have followed all steps in the Microsft Technet pages to create a CSV and a VM with Shared VHDX
I’ve cleared all settings and restarted multiple times, but this option is not present

Hi Sir,
>>No matter what I try, when I add a SCSI Adapter and one VHDX virtual disk to a VM, the option for "Advanced" never shows up therefore I can not share the VHDX file between another VM
>>Yes we are using Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
As we know Hyper-v server 2012R2 is a free version without GUI , I'm afraid you are not using Win 8.1 or other windows server 2012R2 to manage that free version hyper-v server .
Shared vhdx is a new feature came with 2012R2 , if use previous windows to manage 2012R2 you will not see "advanced" option (The blue circle belongs 2012 , the red circle belongs to 2012R2 ):
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How to recover deleted files from a shared volume?

Setup - Mac Mini Server (OSX 10.8.4, Server 2.2.1(169)), 256GB Flash drive, System data only. External 8TB G-Raid holds all business data, backed up to a LaCie 6TB Quadra using Intego Backup Manager Pro 1.0.9. The G-Raid has two folders 0_Clients and DATA which are shared through OS X Server.
Situation, told customer backup drive (LaCie) was almost full mid April, purge data. They didn't and backups stopped running at end of April. Yesterday, they accidentally deleted a folder / with files. User was on an iMac, connected to the share DATA when deleted. Called in a panic of course. New folder and files were created after the last back was executed.
Question - Folder and files were deleted but Trash was not "emptied". Researching, I learned about hidden trash folders. So, I was hopeful I'd find the info in the hidden /.Trashes folder on the shared Volume G-Raid. My understanding is that that's where it would go, until an "empty trash" is executed. I've shown all hidden files / folders via "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE". Navigated to the volume G-Raid/.Trashes and the folder/ files are not there. Is there another location where they may possibly be??? Or, are they hosed and it's really gone "Deleted"???
Thx

With a locally connected volume e.g. a hard disk or USB flash drive, when you delete a file it does get moved to the 'Trash' folder and until the Trash is emptied can still be retrieved. However with a network volume if a logged in user deletes a file or folder it normally gets deleted immediately. (The user would get a message saying "This item will be deleted immediately. You can’t undo this action.")
So the likelihood is that the items are not in any trash folder even if you found and looked in them.
It used to be the case that even when using a network file server you still had the benefit of files first going to the trash folder but Apple stopped doing this a long time ago. The network trash folder would be at the top level of the network share. (If it exists and works.) Some NAS devices might still support it but as I mentioned I don't believe Apple themselves do.
So you could try using Terminal.app to look for an invisible folder at the top-level folder of the network share, if the network share is a folder called 'Fred' then this invisible folder would be in 'Fred' and would be called "Network Trash Folder". You can try looking for this either on the server or from a logged in client.
Do ls -la in Terminal.app the 'a' flag means show all including invisible files.
As you have probably guessed by now it is almost certainly the case these files are lost and cannot be retrieved. The users unfortunately are guilty of multiple mistakes.
They ignored your warning about the backup drive
They deleted something they should not have
They ignored the warning the Mac would have shown about "This item will be deleted immediately. You can’t undo this action."
I would add an additional error that they and perhaps you as their advisor are guilty of. Never rely on a single level of backup, ideally you should have a rotating set of backups i.e. one for each day - Monday, Tuesday, etc. and even more importantly should store these off-site unless being used so that in the even of a fire, flood or other disaster you still have intact backups.
In theory ACL permissions can be set to allow reading, allow writing but disallow deleting. Unfortunately in the real world trying to use the disallow deleting option is a waste of time. This is because many programs 'save' changes by saving a new temporary file, deleting the original file, and renaming the temporary file to the original name. This will not work if you block deleting.

Cluster shared volume disappear... STATUS_MEDIA_WRITE_PROTECTED(c00000a2)

Hi all, I am having an issue hopefully someone can help me with. I have recently inherited a 2 node cluster,
both nodes are one half of an ASUS
RS702D-E6/PS8 so both nodes should be near identical. They are both running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hosting some 14 VM's.
Each node is hooked up via cat5e to a Promise
VessRAID 1830i via iSCSI using one of the servers onboard NICs each, whose cluster network is setup as Disabled for cluster use (the way I think it is supposed to be not the way I had originally inherited it) on it's own Class A Subnet and on it's own
private physical switch...
The SAN hosts a 30GB CSV Witness Disk and 2 2TB CSV Volumes, one for each node labeled Volume1 and Volume2. Some VHD's on each.
The Cluster Clients connect to the rest of the company via the Virtual ExternalNIC adapters created in Hyper-V manager but physically are off of Intel ET Dual Gigabit adapters
wired into our main core switch which is set up with class c subnets.
I also have a crossover cable wired up running to the other ports on the Intel ET Dual Port NICs using yet a third Class B Subnet and is configured in the Failover Cluster
Manger as internal so there are 3 ipv4 Cluster networks total.
Even though the cluster passes the validation tests with flying colors I am not convinced all is well. With Hyperv1 or node 1,
I can move the CSV's and machines over to hyperv2 or node 2, stop the cluster service on 1 and perform maintenance such as a reboot or install patches if needed. When it reboots or I restart the cluster service to bring it back online,
it is well behaved leaving hyperv2 the owner of all 3 CSV's Witness, Volume 1 and 2. I can then pass them back or split them up any which way and at no point is cluster service interrupted or noticed by users, duh I know this is how it is SUPPOSED to work
but...
if I try the same thing with Node 2, that is move the witness and volumes to node 1 as owner and migrate all VM's over, stop cluster service on node 2, do whatever I have
to do and reboot, as soon as node 2 tries to go back online, it tries to snatch volume 2 back, but it never succeeds and then the following error is logged in cluster event log:
Hyperv1
Event ID: 5120
Source: Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
Task Category: Cluster Shared Volume
The listed message is:
Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume2' ('HyperV1 Disk') is no longer available on this node because of 'STATUS_MEDIA_WRITE_PROTECTED(c00000a2)'. All I/O will temporarily be queued until
a path to the volume is reestablished.
Followed 4 seconds later by:
Hyperv1
event ID: 1069
Source: Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
Task Catagory: Resource Control Manager
Message: Cluster Resource 'Hyperv1 Disk in clustered service or application '75d88aa3-8ecf-47c7-98e7-6099e56a097d'
failed.
- AND -
2 of the following:
Hyperv1
event ID: 1038
Source: Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
Task Catagory: Physical Disk Resource
Message: Ownership of cluster disk 'HyperV1 Disk' has been unexpectedly lost by this node. Run the Validate
a Configuration wizard to check your storage configuration.
Followed 1 second later by another 1069 and then various machines are failing messages.
If you browse to
\\hyperv-1\c$\clusterstorage\ or
\\hyperv-2\c$\Clusterstorage\, Volume 2 is indeed missing!!
This has caused me to panic a few times as the first time I saw this I thought everything was lost but I can get it back by stopping the service on node 1 or shutting it
down, restarting node 2 or the service on node 2 and waiting forever for the disk to list as failed and then shortly thereafter it comes back online. I can then boot node 1 back up and let it start servicing the cluster again. It doesn’t pull the same
craziness node 2 does when it comes online; it leaves all ownership with 2 unless I tell I to move.
I am very new to clusters and all I know at this point is this is pretty cool stuff but basically if it is running don’t mess with it is the attitude I have taken
with it but there is a significant amount of money tied up in this hardware and we should be able to leverage this as needed, not wonder if it is going to act up again.
To me it seems for a ‘failover’ cluster it should be way more robust than this...
I can go into way more detail if needed but I didn’t see any other posts on this specific issue no matter what forum I scoured. I’m obviously looking for advice
on how to get this resolved as well as advice on whether or not I wired the cluster networks correctly. I am also not sure about what protocols are bound to what nics anymore and what the binding order should be, could this be what is causing my issue?
I have NVSPBIND and NVSPSCRUB on both boxes if needed.
Thanks!
-LW

Hello Ravikumar,
Thanks about your attention!
All disks are Online, see below the status of disks, but the problem continues, any ideas?
PS.: For your information, all disks are delivered to hosts by SAN/HBA and all tests from Cluster Validation are passed.
PS C:\Users\hyperv_admin> Get-ClusterSharedVolume
Name State Node
hyperv-04_vol1_fc
Online vmserver27
hyperv-04_vol2_fc
Online vmserver26
hyperv-04_vol3_sata
Online vmserver25
hyperv-04_vol4_sata
Online vmserver27
See below the patches applied on my hosts:
KB2263829 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2263829
KB2425227 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2425227
KB2484033 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2484033
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Thanks
Ricardo

Cluster Shared Volume disappeared after taking the volume offline for Validation Tests.

Hi,
After an unknown issue with one of our Hyper-V 4 Node cluster running on Server 2008 R2 SP1 with fibre channel NEC D3-10 SAN Storage all our cluster shared volumes were in redirecting mode and I was unable to get them back online. Only after rebooting all
the nodes one by one the disks came back online. Eventlog messages indicated that I had to test my cluster validation. After shutting down all the virtual machines I set all the cluster shared volumes offline and started the complete validation test. The following
warnings/errors appeared during the test.
An error occurred while executing the test.
An error occurred retrieving the
disk information for the resource 'VSC2_DATA_H'.
Element not found (Validate Volume Consistency Test)
Cluster disk 4 is a Microsoft MPIO based disk
Cluster disk 4 from node has 4 usable path(s) to storage target
Cluster disk 4 from node has 4 usable path(s) to storage target
Cluster disk 4 is not managed by Microsoft MPIO from node
Cluster disk 4 is not managed by Microsoft MPIO from node (Validate Microsoft MPIO-based disks test)
SCSI page 83h VPD descriptors for cluster disk 4 and 5 match (Validate SCSI device Vital Product Data (VPD) test)
After the test the cluster shared volume was disappeared (the resource is online).
Cluster events that are logged
Cluster physical disk resource 'DATA_H' cannot be brought online because the associated disk could not be found. The expected signature of the disk was '{d6e6a1e0-161e-4fe2-9ca0-998dc89a6f25}'. If the disk was replaced or restored, in the Failover Cluster
Manager snap-in, you can use the Repair function (in the properties sheet for the disk) to repair the new or restored disk. If the disk will not be replaced, delete the associated disk resource. (Event 1034)
Cluster disk resource found the disk identifier to be stale. This may be expected if a restore operation was just performed or if this cluster uses replicated storage. The DiskSignature or DiskUniqueIds property for the disk resource has been corrected.
(Event 1568)
In disk management the disk is unallocated, unknown, Reserved. When the resource is on one node and i open disk management i get the warning that i have to initialize the disk. I did not do this yet.
Reading from other posts i think that the partition table got corrupted but i have no idea how to get it back. I found the following information but it's not enough for me to go ahead with: Using a tool like TestDisk to rewrite the partition table. then
rewriting the uniqueID to the disk brought everything back. But still no explaination as to why we had our "High Availability" Fail Over cluster down for nearly 2 Days. This happened to us twice within the past week.
Anybody that an idea how to solve this? I think my data is still intact.
Thanx for taking the time to read this.
DJITS.

Hi,
Error information you provided indicate disk connection failure issue, please confirm shared disk 4 is available:
To review hardware, connections, and configuration of a disk in cluster storage:
On each node in the cluster, open Disk Management (which is in Server Manager under Storage) and see if the disk is visible from one of the nodes (it should be visible from one node but not multiple nodes). If it is visible to
a node, continue to the next step. If it is not visible from any node, still in Disk Management on a node, right-click any volume, click Properties, and then click the Hardware tab. Click the listed disks or LUNs to see if all expected disks or LUNs appear.
If they do not, check cables, multi-path software, and the storage device, and correct any issues that are preventing one or more disks or LUNs from appearing. If this corrects the overall problem, skip all the remaining steps and procedures.
Review the event log for any events that indicate problems with the disk. If an event provides information about the disk signature expected by the cluster, save this information and skip to the last step in this procedure.
To open the failover cluster snap-in, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Failover Cluster Management. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and
then click Continue.
In the Failover Cluster Management snap-in, if the cluster you want to manage is not displayed, in the console tree, right-click Failover Cluster Management, click Manage a Cluster, and then select or specify the cluster that
you want.
If the console tree is collapsed, expand the tree under the cluster you want to manage, and then click Storage.
In the center pane, find the disk resource whose configuration you want to check, and record the exact name of the resource for use in a later step.
Click Start, point to All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
Type:
CLUSTER RESOURCE DiskResourceName /PRIV >path\filename.TXT
For DiskResourceName, type the name of the disk resource, and for path\filename, type a path and a new filename of your choosing.
Locate the file you created in the previous step and open it. For a master boot record (MBR) disk, look in the file for DiskSignature. For a GPT disk, look in the file for DiskIdGuid.
Use the software for your storage to determine whether the signature of the disk matches either the DiskSignature or DiskIdGuid for the disk resource. If it does not, use the following procedure to repair the disk configuration.
For more information please refer to following MS articles:
Event ID 1034 — Cluster Storage Functionality
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756229(v=WS.10).aspx
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Failover Cluster Quorum Disk is fallen off the shared volume

Hi, we had a Cluster that was holding 40+ VMs and was originally setup with the building 1GB Ethernet adapter, we yesterday installed Qlogic 10 GB NIC teaming for both of the nodes and reconfigured the network on both nodes. However now the Quorum disk
is not a part of Cluster Shared Volume How can I add that disk back to the shared volum please?

Hi Riaz,
Add a quorum disk is easy so please let us know if there is any specific error occurs during the steps provided in following thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/0566ede4-55bb-4694-a134-104fac2a7052/replace-quorum-disk-on-failover-cluster-on-different-lun?forum=winserverClustering
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Color Lables on Shared Volumes

Hi Everyone,
I have just found out that when a user changes the label color for a folder on a shared volume the changes are not reflected real-time. That's to say If I change the colour of a folder called Templates to "Red" another user on another mac who also sees the shared volume will not see the label color change made to the Templates folder. He/She will need to disconnect the shared volume and reconnect in order to see the change. Has anyone out there seen this problem? It's not 100% essential but would be good if there was a solution of some sort.
Just to add did not have this problem on my old mac server which was running 10.2.x our new server is running 10.4.8.
Thanks,
Kwong.

Hi Russell, Sorry been away for a few days. The InDesign documents are already on a shared volume and it wouldn't be feasible to save anywhere else as there is a particular hierarchy on the server as to where files are stored, so that all documents are within their relevant job folders, with images, image bank images & graphics etc stored on other shares. However all acl's are the same for all users, so this shouldn't be an issue. I still can't work out whether this is an Apple OS or an Adobe problem.

How to make folder view static on shared volume

I have an external drive connected to a Mac Mini (10.6.8). We use that external drive as our shared network drive. 4 Macs and 2 PCs access the drive. Please tell me how I can alter the ".DS_store" file on the SHARED VOLUME so that each user can expand disclosure triangles, etc. on the server volume, but each individual user isn't affected by how any particular user is viewing the folders. Right now, if User #1 expands a bunch of folders, all of the other users see that, too. I've done this before, using the Terminal. Alas, I've lost the directions for that. I believe it involved changing the permissions on the "DS_store" file on the server volume. Thanks in advance.

The following should work
cd /path/to/the/folder
chmod 444 .DS_Store
Repeat for each folder of interest.
If you have an entire directory tree, you could use something like
cd /path/to/the/top/folder
find . -iname .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 444
The 444 is read for owner, group, everyone else, and no write, and no execute permissions for the .DS_Store file. No write means no one should be able to change the contents of the .DS_Store file.
The find command will start at the current folder, then walk down the directory tree looking for all the .DS_Store files and pipe those files to xargs which will execute the chmod 444 command for each .DS_Store found.
Does this sound like what you did before?

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