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  • Setting Timeouts: SQL Server 2008/IIS 7.5

    - by Julie
    We have recently migrated from a Win 2003/SQL Server 2000 system to Win 2008 64 bit R2, SQL Server 2008 R2. Our websites are in classic asp, and this can't be changed to another scripting language at this time. On the old server, if I got stuck in some kind of endless loop, the page would throw an error. On the new server, I have a page that has some sort of looping problem, that even though the SQL SP is called only once (and runs fine run as a query on the server) it pegs SQL server and therefore locks all of our websites. I'll get my code figured out, no biggie. But I need to make sure the server times out when this happens. (The page I'm working on runs fine with certain instances of the query, and locks with others using a different query variable. I can't have something like that sneak up on me on a page I haven't touched for three years.) I can't figure out how an SP that runs once on the server, from an ASP page, is tying up SQL server this way. It's obviously some sort of a timeout issue, but I can't figure out where/which timeout values to change. I actually have to remote desktop to the server and kill the process in SQL server. I'm afraid I'm a generalist, and server management is not my thing, even though it's my responsibility, so I am almost certain to have questions about any answer that I receive. How can I track this down? What settings do I need to change? More info: It's not SQL Server On our test site, I created an ASP file that just did an endless loop (do while 1=1) and had the same problem - the other websites wouldn't load - without SQL server being involved. So I think the reason the process was hanging is that the page wasn't timing out as it should, and so the connection to SQL was never closed. Killing the process in SQL server would reset the page somehow. For my intentional endless loop, I had to refresh the app pool to get rid of it. This points more to either IIS or the ASP settings. The ASP timeouts are set to whatever the default were when the server was first loaded. I still can't figure out why one file is locking up all websites, though. Again, that didn't happen on the old server.

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  • why i failed to build vsftp?

    - by hugemeow
    make, then failed with the following message. the main point is /lib/libcap.so.1: could not read symbols: File in wrong format, confusing... gcc -c readwrite.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc gcc -c opts.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc gcc -c ssl.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc gcc -c sslslave.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc gcc -c ptracesandbox.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc gcc -c ftppolicy.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc gcc -c sysutil.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc gcc -c sysdeputil.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc gcc -o vsftpd main.o utility.o prelogin.o ftpcmdio.o postlogin.o privsock.o tunables.o ftpdataio.o secbuf.o ls.o postprivparent.o logging.o str.o netstr.o sysstr.o strlist.o banner.o filestr.o parseconf.o secutil.o ascii.o oneprocess.o twoprocess.o privops.o standalone.o hash.o tcpwrap.o ipaddrparse.o access.o features.o readwrite.o opts.o ssl.o sslslave.o ptracesandbox.o ftppolicy.o sysutil.o sysdeputil.o -Wl,-s `./vsf_findlibs.sh` /lib/libcap.so.1: could not read symbols: File in wrong format collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [vsftpd] Error 1 [mirror@hugemeow vsftpd]$ ls /lib/libc libc-2.5.so libcap.so.1.10 libcidn.so.1 libcom_err.so.2.1 libcrypto.so.0.9.8e libcrypt.so.1 libcap.so.1 libcidn-2.5.so libcom_err.so.2 libcrypt-2.5.so libcrypto.so.6 libc.so.6 [mirror@hugemeow vsftpd]$ ls /lib/libc libc-2.5.so libcap.so.1.10 libcidn.so.1 libcom_err.so.2.1 libcrypto.so.0.9.8e libcrypt.so.1 libcap.so.1 libcidn-2.5.so libcom_err.so.2 libcrypt-2.5.so libcrypto.so.6 libc.so.6 [mirror@hugemeow vsftpd]$ ls /lib/libcap.so.1 -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 20 2012 /lib/libcap.so.1 -> libcap.so.1.10 [mirror@hugemeow vsftpd]$ ls /lib/libcap.so.1 -lh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 20 2012 /lib/libcap.so.1 -> libcap.so.1.10 [mirror@hugemeow vsftpd]$ ls /lib/libcap.so.1 -lhL -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12K Mar 15 2007 /lib/libcap.so.1 this may have something to do with 64 bit system, but i have make modification to vsf_findlibs.sh 48 # Look for libcap (capabilities) 49 if locate_library /lib64/libcap.so.1; then 50 echo "/lib/libcap.so.1"; 51 elif locate_library /lib64/libcap.so.2; then 52 echo "/lib/libcap.so.2"; 53 else 54 # locate_library /usr/lib/libcap.so && echo "-lcap"; 55 # locate_library /lib/libcap.so && echo "-lcap"; 56 locate_library /lib64/libcap.so.1 && echo "-lcap"; 57 fi but make failed with the same error, why?

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  • WOL not working with two NIC's

    - by amazinghorse24
    We have recently moved from a windows 2003 server to an 08 R2. Running the program from the command line says that the magic packet has successfully been sent but it never actually reached the destination computer. We have two NIC's on the server. If I disable the NIC that isn't (currently) in use, WOL will work fine, but in the future we will need to use both NIC's. Also, we use MAC Addresses for WOL.

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  • Update password for scheduled task

    - by UserXIII
    I have a scheduled task that needs to run as a service account. The service account's password resets every 100 days, so I need to update the password for the scheduled task. I cannot figure out how to do this. When I select "Change User or Group" in the scheduled tasks' properties I get no prompt to update the password. This scheduled task will be deployed on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.

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  • How to get Faster RDP

    - by Jay
    We are using Win 2008 R2 and connecting to it from Win7 boxes. The RDP is faster then before but we want to know if their are any other solutions that will make it faster. Due to licensing issue we got a software that multiple people need to access (not all at the same time) and the only way i can find is to install on a server and give RDP access to users. Is their a faster remote desktop tool then RDP ? Thanks Jay

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  • Disabling Windows Server 2008 firewall

    - by Vladimir Georgiev
    I am very stupid. I applied a windows firewall rule that blocks all tcp connection and thus kicking me out of remote desktop on a dedicated server. I managed to get into recovery via VNC, which is basically a windows xp recovery system. I have access to the physical files of the Windows Server 2008 R2 installation, but I don't know how to disable the firewall so I can reboot from recovery and connect to the W2K8 via remote desktop. Please, help.

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  • Checking the integrity of windows 2008 server backup

    - by Norberto
    Hi all There is a simple way to check the integrity of a backup made with Windows Backup in Windows 2008 Server Enterprise (not R2)? Today i tried to restore some files from a backup I made some days ago, and the Windows Backup snap-in reported that the file was unreadable. I think the corruption occurred due to the network share in wich the files were being stored went offline during the backup process, that was my fault. Regards Norberto

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  • Deleting windows.edb and unchecking Indexing service lead to hard drive file records swapping

    - by linni
    I followed the instructions listed here:http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/18/turn-off-and-disable-search-indexing-service-in-windows-xp/ to free up space on hard drive by deleting the windows.edb indexing file... I also stopped windows search service as mentioned in the comments following the article. In addition to unchecking the "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" check box on the properties dialog for the C:\ drive, I did the same for two usb connected hard drives (J:\ and I:\ ). I'm not sure why I did that, thought it might shrink the windows.edb file so I wouldn't have to delete it (which sounded a bit risky in my ears at the time). The file of course didn't shrink so I ended up deleting it and freeing up over 3 GB of space, yeehaw. However, as soon as I had done this I could not access the usb connected hard drives anymore. The error I got was "I:\photos is not accessible" "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" when I tried to open the photos directory on I:\ Here is where I enter the twilight zone... I try disconnecting I:\ usb hard drive. But XP shows me that instead J:\ drive has disconnected and I:\ is still there. So I disconnect both drives and restart the computer. I then connect one drive, but it lists up the contents of the other drive on root level. I tried connecting the drives vice versa and the same thing happens. I try taking one of the hard drives to another computer and when I connect it there it lists up not its own contents but the contents of the other hard drive and gives the same error as above when I try and access any of the folders (even folders on the root that have the same name as folders on the other drive (e.g. J:\photos and I:\photos)??? And no, this is not a me mixing up my drive letters. Computer Manager - Disk management shows the same result as explorer: The drive size is correct (one is 500GB, the other is 640GB) but the drive name is of the opposite drive, as long as the contents. Also, one drive was full of data and the other almost empty but they incorrectly show their free space status of the other drive. Somehow the usb drives seem to have switched file tables, file records, boot records or something, extremely weird! Even weirder, if I try and create a text file or folder on this drive, it works fine, accessing them, saving, whatever, all good, but accessing any other data on the drive gives me an error. Does anyone have a clue what is going on and more importantly, how I can restore the correct folder listings to access my family photos ??? cheers, linni

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  • Setting up a very mixed Active Directory network to work with PowerShell Remote Administration

    - by erictheavg
    Summary: I want to be able to monitor the computers on my network, but don't need it to be automated. We're too small to purchase anything like MOM, but too big to do anything manually (~100 machines in two locations). I just keep running into issues, and was wondering if there's a master list of Group Policy settings I can distribute to my environment to get Remote Powershell working. Environment: Our AD network is pretty mixed. The end users have XP SP3, Win 7, and Win 7 x64. The servers include Win2k3 SP2, Win2k8, Win2k8 x64, Win2k8 R2, and Win2k8 R2 x64. Details: I'm trying to get it to work with Remote Powershell, but I run into errors like the following: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request. Default authentication may be used with an IP address under the following conditions: the transport is HTTPS or the destination is in the TrustedHosts list, and explicit credentials are provided. Use winrm.cmd to configure TrustedHosts. Note that computers in the TrustedHosts list might not be authenticated. For more information on how to set TrustedHosts run the following command: winrm help config. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. + CategoryInfo : OpenError: (:) [], PSRemotingTransportException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PSSessionStateBroken Then I go to the computer (Win2k3 SP2 server) and run winrm quickconfig per the recommendations via google, and it says: Make these changes [y/n]? y WinRM has been updated to receive requests. WinRM service started. WSManFault Message = The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". Error number: -2144108526 0x80338012 The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". That's right. It tells me to remedy my winrm quickconfig failure by running winrm quickconfig. I don't want to band-aid this project one google search at a time. I'm sure there is a step-by-step tutorial out there on how to set up a network for powershell remote administration. Does anyone know of one? Books are acceptable. Thanks in advance! I didn't think my question would get this long.

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  • Batch update users on Active Directory

    - by FrancisV
    We have around 1000 users in the Active Directory (on Windows 2008 R2) and we would like to batch update a field (student/employee ID number) from the school management system into their existing Active Directory accounts. Obviously, each student/employee ID is unique and needs to be matched to their current Active Directory account. How can this be done? Is there a tool available for this purpose?

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  • Messages stuck in SMTP queue - Exchange 2003

    - by Diav
    I need your help people ;-) I have a problem with messages coming into our Exchange Server and ones going out through it. Basically, the messages are stuck in the SMTP queue. A message will come into the server, I can see it listed under "Exchange System Manager", but if you list the properties of the message queue it says something like 00:10 SMTP Message queued for local delivery 00:10 SMTP Message delivered locally to [email protected] 00:10 SMTP Message scheduled to retry local delivery 00:11 SMTP Message delivered locally to [email protected] 00:11 SMTP Message scheduled to retry local delivery etc etc For outgoing message list looks like this: 10:55 SMTP: Message Submitted to Advanced Queuing 10:55 SMTP: Started Message Submission to Advanced Queue 10:55 SMTP: Message Submitted to Categorizer 10:55 SMTP: Message Categorized and Queued for Routing 10:55 SMTP: Message Routed nad Queued for Remote Delivery And the end - since then status didn't change, message is in queue, I am forcing connection from time to time but without an effect. I checked connection with smarthost (used telnet for that) and everything seems to work correctly, so the problem is probably on exchange side. I am using Exchange Server 2003 running on Small Business Server 2003. I don't have any antivirus installed on server. Remaining free space on each partition is over 3Gb, on partition with data bases - it is over 12Gb. All was working good and without problems since 2005, problems started in half of this june - messages started going out and being stuck almost randomly (I don't see a pattern yet, some are going out, some are not, some are going after several hours). I don't know what to do, what to check more, so please, any ideas? Best regards, D. edit Priv1.edb has 14,5GB and priv1.stm 2,6GB - together those files have more than 16GB - can it be the reason? If yes, then what? Indeed, I haven't thought that it can have something in common with my problem, but several users reported recent problems with Outlook Web Access - they can log in, they see the list of their mails, but they can't see the content of their emails. Although when they are connecting with Outlook 2003/2007 - there is no such problem, only with OWA there is. edit2 So,.. It works now, and I have to admit that I am not really sure what the problem was (hope it won't come back). What have I done: Cleaned up some mailboxes to reduce size of them Dismounted Information Store Defragmentated data base files ( I used eseutil: c:\program files\exchsrvr\bin eseutil /d g:\data base\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA\priv1.edb ) Mounted Information Store back ..and before I managed to do anything else - my queue started moving, elements which were kept there already for days - started moving and after few minutes everything was sent, both, outside and locally. But: priv1.edb is still big (13 884 203 008), priv1.stm as well (2 447 384 576), so this is probably not the issue of size of the file. And if not this, so what was that? And if that was issue of size of the file, then soon it will repeat - is there something I can do to avoid it ?

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  • SMTP Remote Queue on Exchange 2003

    - by Adam
    We are currently using Windows Server 2003 R2 with Exchange 2003 and SolarWinds Exchange Monitor to monitor. A couple of weeks ago the SMTP remote queue began to build up and it got to about 150 messages in the queue when it began to go down. For the last couple of days the queue has been building up and it has now reached 450 messages. Is there anyway that i can clear this and is it anything that I need to worry about? Thanks guys!

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  • How do I use Group Policy on a domain to delete Temporary Internet Files?

    - by Muhammad Ali
    I have a domain controller running on Windows 2008 Server R2 and users login to application servers on which Windows 2003 Server SP2 is installed. I have applied a Group Policy to clean temporary internet files on exit i.e to delete all temporary internet files when users close the browser. But the group policy doesn't seem to work as user profile size keeps on increasing and the major space is occupied by temporary internet files therefore increasing the disk usage. How can i enforce automatic deletion of temporary internet files?

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  • Trying to get to the command prompt through recovery disk

    - by cody
    I'm trying to reach the command prompt through a vista recovery disk I have, and it boots from the disk and gets to the point where it asks which installation I want to repair and then says the disk is not compatible with my version of windows. I have a dual boot setup with Vista and server 2008 R2. Is there another was to run check disk? I can't boot in safemode or normally, I suspect a driver (atipcie) is the problem

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  • Dell PowerEdge Server BitLocker Hotswap Hard disks

    - by JoshODBrown
    We have a Windows 2008 R2 Server running on a Dell PowerEdge R310 Server with Bitlocker enabled. There are two physical Hard disks configured as RAID 1. One of the disks recently started having an issue, so we have now have a warranty covered replacement for it, But we were curious if there will be any issues hot swapping the new drive in due to BitLocker being enabled? Has anyone had a similar experience with scenario?

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  • Unable to get anything except 403 from a .Net 4.5 website

    - by Basic
    Scenario: Clean Server 2008 R2 Install with IIS Role. Installed Framework 3.5 (Server Features) Installed Framework 4.5 RC (MS Download) executed C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319>aspnet_regiis.exe -i (I'd use -iru on existing servers but this is a clean build). Published via File System (SMB share) Converted the folder into an application using the .Net 4.0 Integrated App Pool Stopped/restarted everything. Browsing to localhost/TestApp results in a 403.14 (Directory browsing forbidden) What step have I missed out? The site in question is MVC4 and targets the 4.5 RC framework

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  • Notification of low DHCP pool in split scope setup

    - by JJBladester
    In Windows Server 2008 R2, it is possible to read the Event Viewer for EventID 1020 which is an indication that the DHCP pool is running low on addresses. What if I have two DHCP servers in my domain that use an 80/20 split scope to take a /24 pool of DHCP-allocated IP addresses and split it amongst the two servers according to this Technet Article? In this case, since the scope is split, how can I tell if the total DHCP pool, which is split amongst the two DHCP servers, is beginning to run low on address space?

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  • How many simultaneous requests can be handled by a medium class server on the average?

    - by Motivated Student
    I have bought a PRIMERGY TX100 S1 Server with a trial version of Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Edition. My internet connection with a static IP is very very fast (about 50 mega bit per second) for both downloading and uploading. My site serves text based contents only, no streaming. How many simultaneous requests can be handled by a medium class server on the average? Can it handle at least 1000 simultaneous requests?

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  • AMD Opteron BSOD - A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocatio

    - by laurens
    On one of our servers we got an -for me new- BSOD with the error message: "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocation time interval" The server's specs: HP XW9400 2x Dual-Core AMD Opeteron 2224 SE 3,20Ghz (4CPUs) 16GB HP ECC RAM Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64bit Nvidia Quadro 4xxx graphics (?) Sounds familiar to someone ? Thanks in advance

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  • Poor WAMP performance when using SMB/UNC Paths

    - by Brad
    I've configured a WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL and PHP) stack when when configured to use local storage takes 3-4 seconds to load. When I use an SMB/UNC share it takes 12-15 seconds to load. Here are the two lines in my httpd.conf: #DocumentRoot "//10.99.108.11/test_htdocs" #<Directory "//10.99.108.11/test_htdocs"> #DocumentRoot "C:/www" #<Directory "C:/www"> Is there performance tuning I can do on windows server 2008 R2 to improve performance or is there another way to improve performance using smb

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  • Windows 7 Multi Monitor RDC

    - by Peter Stegnar
    I would like to use all my monitors for the remote session (an option in RDC dialogue) if I connect (from Windows 7) to the one server with Windows 2008 R2 it works OK (I have remote connection on my all monitors) when do I connect to the another server with Windows 7 it just wound not use all my monitors, but just one (full screen mode). What do I missing here? Some setting on the Windows 7 server?

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  • How to update terminal services client

    - by Owl
    Currently running 5.2 on Server2003 R2 with XP SP2 & SP3 workstations that connect to it. Do the workstations have to use the updated (6.0) to be compatible? Will it mess with everyone's connection if I do the update while they are logged on? Reason for update is that people are complaining to me about grid lines that sometimes appear on the screen, researched that, and updating RDP client is my solution.

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  • Excessive CPU Utilization for Bind 9.8.1 `named` processes

    - by justinzane
    I just noticed that named is eating vast amounts of CPU time for a very small network with only a few domains. Can someone help me determine what is misconfigured, please? Or how to debug this. top top - 14:13:08 up 25 days, 14:16, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.04, 1.05 Tasks: 149 total, 1 running, 148 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 17.3 us, 4.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 78.2 id, 0.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 2042776 total, 1347916 used, 694860 free, 249396 buffers KiB Swap: 3976080 total, 30552 used, 3945528 free, 574164 cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 17445 bind 20 0 244m 42m 3124 S 99.4 2.2 2345:03 named rndc stats +++ Statistics Dump +++ (1352931389) ++ Incoming Requests ++ 65869 QUERY ++ Incoming Queries ++ 31809 A 241 NS 3 CNAME 27455 SOA 276 PTR 123 MX 462 TXT 5400 AAAA 7 A6 1 DS 14 DNSKEY 15 SPF 55 AXFR 8 ANY ++ Outgoing Queries ++ [View: internal] 22206 A 509 NS 10 SOA 25 PTR 12 MX 524 TXT 4851 AAAA 62 DNSKEY 19 SPF 3157 DLV [View: external] 87 A 2 NS 80 AAAA 120 DNSKEY 7 DLV [View: _bind] ++ Name Server Statistics ++ 65869 IPv4 requests received 27670 requests with EDNS(0) received 112 TCP requests received 65652 responses sent 20 truncated responses sent 27670 responses with EDNS(0) sent 62920 queries resulted in successful answer 37117 queries resulted in authoritative answer 28482 queries resulted in non authoritative answer 7 queries resulted in referral answer 591 queries resulted in nxrrset 53 queries resulted in SERVFAIL 2081 queries resulted in NXDOMAIN 14530 queries caused recursion 162 duplicate queries received 55 requested transfers completed ++ Zone Maintenance Statistics ++ 109536 IPv4 notifies sent ++ Resolver Statistics ++ [Common] [View: internal] 29362 IPv4 queries sent 2013 IPv6 queries sent 28531 IPv4 responses received 4209 NXDOMAIN received 6 SERVFAIL received 31 FORMERR received 32 EDNS(0) query failures 3359 query retries 836 query timeouts 5348 IPv4 NS address fetches 3271 IPv6 NS address fetches 83 IPv4 NS address fetch failed 2779 IPv6 NS address fetch failed 17421 DNSSEC validation attempted 12731 DNSSEC validation succeeded 4690 DNSSEC NX validation succeeded 21104 queries with RTT 10-100ms 7418 queries with RTT 100-500ms 3 queries with RTT 500-800ms 1 queries with RTT 800-1600ms [View: external] 192 IPv4 queries sent 104 IPv6 queries sent 192 IPv4 responses received 2 NXDOMAIN received 104 query retries 44 IPv4 NS address fetches 44 IPv6 NS address fetches 1 IPv4 NS address fetch failed 1 IPv6 NS address fetch failed 4 DNSSEC validation attempted 3 DNSSEC validation succeeded 1 DNSSEC NX validation succeeded 152 queries with RTT 10-100ms 40 queries with RTT 100-500ms [View: _bind] ++ Cache DB RRsets ++ [View: internal (Cache: internal)] 2007 A 652 NS 131 CNAME 1 MX 32 TXT 421 AAAA 28 DS 244 RRSIG 110 NSEC 3 DNSKEY 2 !A 2 !TXT 89 !AAAA 2 !SPF 14 !DLV 148 NXDOMAIN [View: external (Cache: external)] 55 A 12 NS 34 AAAA 2 DS 10 RRSIG 1 DNSKEY [View: _bind (Cache: _bind)] ++ Socket I/O Statistics ++ 82958 UDP/IPv4 sockets opened 2118 UDP/IPv6 sockets opened 4 TCP/IPv4 sockets opened 1 TCP/IPv6 sockets opened 82956 UDP/IPv4 sockets closed 2117 UDP/IPv6 sockets closed 58 TCP/IPv4 sockets closed 15 UDP/IPv4 socket bind failures 2117 UDP/IPv6 socket connect failures 29554 UDP/IPv4 connections established 59 TCP/IPv4 connections accepted 2117 UDP/IPv6 send errors 5 UDP/IPv4 recv errors ++ Per Zone Query Statistics ++ --- Statistics Dump --- (1352931389)

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  • Deleting windows.edb and unchecking Indexing service lead to hard drive file records swapping

    - by linni
    I followed the instructions listed here:http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/09/18/turn-off-and-disable-search-indexing-service-in-windows-xp/ to free up space on hard drive by deleting the windows.edb indexing file... I also stopped windows search service as mentioned in the comments following the article. In addition to unchecking the "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" check box on the properties dialog for the C:\ drive, I did the same for two usb connected hard drives (J:\ and I:\ ). I'm not sure why I did that, thought it might shrink the windows.edb file so I wouldn't have to delete it (which sounded a bit risky in my ears at the time). The file of course didn't shrink so I ended up deleting it and freeing up over 3 GB of space, yeehaw. However, as soon as I had done this I could not access the usb connected hard drives anymore. The error I got was "I:\photos is not accessible" "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" when I tried to open the photos directory on I:\ Here is where I enter the twilight zone... I try disconnecting I:\ usb hard drive. But XP shows me that instead J:\ drive has disconnected and I:\ is still there. So I disconnect both drives and restart the computer. I then connect one drive, but it lists up the contents of the other drive on root level. I tried connecting the drives vice versa and the same thing happens. I try taking one of the hard drives to another computer and when I connect it there it lists up not its own contents but the contents of the other hard drive and gives the same error as above when I try and access any of the folders (even folders on the root that have the same name as folders on the other drive (e.g. J:\photos and I:\photos)??? And no, this is not a me mixing up my drive letters. Computer Manager - Disk management shows the same result as explorer: The drive size is correct (one is 500GB, the other is 640GB) but the drive name is of the opposite drive, as long as the contents. Also, one drive was full of data and the other almost empty but they incorrectly show their free space status of the other drive. Somehow the usb drives seem to have switched file tables, file records, boot records or something, extremely weird! Even weirder, if I try and create a text file or folder on this drive, it works fine, accessing them, saving, whatever, all good, but accessing any other data on the drive gives me an error. Does anyone have a clue what is going on and more importantly, how I can restore the correct folder listings to access my family photos ??? cheers, linni

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