@garak0410 said:

Because this thing creates and modifies 100's of not 1000's of files when they make the cells, it could be encountering network congestion and it just stops with that error.

Sounds like a shitty program. Nothing should be making that many calls to files. Especially over SMB.

You might be hitting some kind of session limit. Check your file server to see if there is lots o' sessions. You can restart the server service to see if it will then let folks in.

You could also be on a path with the switch idea. El cheapo switches, with a chatty protocol like SMB, could be filling the ARP table with all kinds of garbage. If it's a commonality, bounce ye olde switch.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Most foundation problems aren't as big a deal as people make it. still easily $10,000 fix in many cases, but, if you inspect the home and it's a good deal. It's not necessarily a reason not to buy. It will scare most away so you should get a better deal as well.

Reminds me of a house I saw down on Forrest Ln. here in Dallas.

Most houses in DFW are a ranch style, flat one story with an attached garage. There is also a large contingent of two story places, but usually have a flat floor plan with another floor on top. Very few split level ranches. Well, this place became a split level. The garage had sunk so deep and so fast into the ground that the garage detached from the rest of the house. The shingles ripped apart and there was a gaping hole in the roof.

Of course, this house was most likely built in the 60s and this neighborhood has been in decline for decades at this point. Bound to happen, but strange to see it that bad.

@coliver said:

@MattSpeller said:

@PSX_Defector @scottalanmiller Why are houses in Texas so poorly founded... foundation'ed... poured... bah you know what I mean

If I remember correctly it has something to do with the sand underneath the foundation and how it shifts over time. Although don't quote me on that.

Where I am we have more stone then soil which brings its own foundation issues.

Heat and soil. Clay expands and contracts with the rain, and with lots of it in the ground, it makes for some big ruts. During some of the more heavy droughts small animals can get stuck in them.

Best defense is a good pier system and diligent watering.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Nic said:

Another one I remembered. To get a good feel for the neighborhood, go walk around and knock on doors on the weekend and chat with your prospective neighbors. They'll give you a good sense of what the place is like.

We had people do this to us in Texas and we were able to tell them that the house had been on and off the market, who else was looking at it and that the foundation had failed!

There are two types of houses in Texas. Ones with foundation problems and ones that will have foundation problems.

@thanksajdotcom said:

This just seems small to me.

I know that's what your girl said to you the other night. Ohhhhhhhhhhh, burn!

Assuming NTFS permissions

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh750728.aspx

Just have to build a batch file to perform the change. Do a dir to get the list of the entire folder, build a spreadsheet with the names in it, and add to the beginning and end of the command

net share \<<share>> /grant:<<user>>,full

Don't forget to force logoffs after an amount of time. Usually Acrobat only goes nuts when its been running for a long long time.

@jevans said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Have you identified the source of the sluggishness? Is it IO, CPU, memory?

The CPU is getting hammered at least that is one area that I am for sure of now. We have ruled out the IO and Memory is/should be sufficient.

That's something to beat the users on, not upgrade and spend tons of money on hardware.

60+ users on a terminal server is nothing. I have had Citrix farms with 200 users and 15 different servers running against it on much older hardware than you got. You need to take a look at your workload and determine what is causing them to suck down the cycles.

@creayt said:

Based on my recent experience w/ an R610 w/ a SAS 6/iR Integrated controller, where we found out late in the game that the controller can't/won't run the SATA SSDs at anything about 1.5 Mbps ( calls it its "negotiated speed" while listing the "3.0 Gbps capable speed" in OpenManage ) while intermingled w/ our other SAS drives, even though they're SATA III drives.

Pretty normal actually.

SAS and SATA do things slightly differently. They are electrically compatible but in order to interact with each other on the same backplane they need to negotiate down to an equal speed. Sounds as though your controller only does it at SATAII on this.

If you gank out the SAS drives, does it go at the right speed then? If you mix, does the SAS drives report and get the right speed?

Best bet is to use another device if you want to have pure SATA SSDs. A small SAN would do the trick.

Better question is, why didn't you get SAS SSDs?

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Nic said:

Usually it isn't immediate life or death. Yes over the long term it will shorten your life and make you die of a heart attack, but usually you've been living with it for a while before you even get diagnosed.

There are some possible negative side effects, such as having the pressure too high and causing central apnea.

The thing you have to remember is that you and I, Scott, are 3+ standard deviations above the mean intelligence, so we're perfectly capable of purchasing and setting up our own system. The other 99.9% of people aren't that smart

I'd be curious where I fell...

@g.jacobse said:

@thanksajdotcom
That is a good point AJ - It's unlikely that any of us plan to 'derail' a conversation..

@Lakshmana said:

@PSX_Defector I accept the reality which happens in India and so our knowledge is lacking in some place and we are trying to improve our skills in every aspects with good confidence.

We in the west have learned that brain dump candidates are usually incredibly poor engineers in the grand scheme of things. Look up "Paper MCSE" and it will give you an idea of how bad it was back in the 90's. Asking for a dump is not good form. Although it would get you a job in India, you are not going to be very desirable to us because we will rook you with questions. We at the big red V got one guy from India who put on his resume "Active Directory Architect" and couldn't even answer what the five FSMO roles are.

To move beyond being a script monkey, you need to think differently. Best way to get there is to understand basic core logic and decision processes. The answer in IT is not always 2+2=4.

To facilitate this, I would recommend learning how to play chess. It requires you to know how the pieces move (logic) and understanding what the consequences of each move will be (decision making). Starting with a very traditional queen pawn gambit versus a king knight has an effect in how the game moves, what you do next when the other player moves another way. Chess, you don't just follow a single process and it always comes out the same way. There are countermeasures against any move, so you have to not only know your move, but anticipate the decision from that point on. Once the mind is trained to think that way, it's much easier to apply that to other areas of your life.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Lakshmana said:

@Reid-Cooper I need to study the ccna with free course material and also in future i need to write exam at ccna so i need the dump for the exam.I also need to do CEH course and I also need the study guide for this and also need the dump for that.So only I am asking

What do you mean by dump though? You haven't told us what you mean by that.

Brain dump. IOW, answers to the test.

Typical education process of the subcontinent.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703515504576142092863219826

@Dashrender

There are third party utilities that will do it. But I need an official Microsoft method of doing it. And if it's nuke and pave, then it's nuke and pave.

I'm not even sure the nuke and pave method is legit as well, as it requires all kinds of fun interrupting of the installation process to make it happen.

That's why I'm in search of anything Microsoft. My google-fu fails me.

@scottalanmiller said:

Important to note..... this is NFSv4 only. So this is NAS for the UNIX world, which is amazing, but not NAS for the Windows world.

Says you.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574143.aspx

Server 2012 or better. 2008 can do NFS, but I don't think it does it natively, or at least not easy.

Posted this over in the other place, figured might as well as my Mangolassi folks as well.

Here's one of those very strange and frankly asanine requests from people.

Customer wants a 64K NTFS cluster size across all of their disks. And I mean ALL of them, C:\ drive included. I've already said to put down the crack pipe, but apparently we are bending backwards on this.

Besides the obvious disk space issues and relatively useless on a drive with not a whole lot of giant files, I need some info to back this up. Microsoft doesn't have any yea or nay on it that I can find. I know it's possible to do, but I don't know of any legitimate Microsoft procedure to do so. So the questions are and maybe someone has some supporting documentation backing this up:

1. Is this a supported configuration for Windows Server 2012?

2. Is there a supported Microsoft method to changing the C:\ cluster size from 4K to 64K without loss of data or reinstalling?

@Dashrender said:

PSX,
I'll start by saying I know nothing about SIP trunks and their providers.

What's the difference between those providers you listed versus say Cox Communications SIP offerings?

Cox is offering a dedicated SIP port (dedicated network connection with their network) for $100/month plus $6 per SIP trunk with unlimited local calling (I'd have to look it up, might include long distance too).

I know Scott wouldn't like this since it relies on my provider providing a dedicated network connection for this connection - making it harder to move to another location if there was a problem, etc.

Probably fine. They most likely are another L3 reseller.

Biggest difference is the location stuff. If you are local to their PoP, and odds are if you are talking with Cox they are the local cable provider, then they are local to you. So that means low latency to the SIP concentrators. Once on the concentrator that makes the calls flow that much better. Mind you, if you are with a reputable ISP, the links to the external providers is probably fine. But they could suffer on the backbone or cause latency somewhere else.

If they are offering it at $100 a month plus $6 per line, that's pretty competitive. That's ~$250 per month for a PRI equivalent. And if you get the pipe along with it? Pretty good.

Just determine if you need T.38 support, otherwise, that's not a bad way to go.

@mlnews said:

@PSX_Defector said:

If you need that much in calling, and Voicepulse doesn't work for ya, maybe look at the big guys. The Death Star, Big Red V, and CenturyLink do have SIP trunking for a more than Voicepulse but offers much more, like decentralized low latency endpoints and great backbone transversal.

VoicePulse has two points on the east coast and two on the west coast.

If I'm not mistaken, the Death Star has 5 just in Texas. I think it's DFW, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso. It's been a while since I looked at that infrastructure.

Remember also that the big guys have huge numbers of PoPs, so not only east/west but most major cities. I know with the Death Star they have PoPs everywhere. So you don't have to just choose from Virgina or San Francisco, you can get Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Atlanta, Raleigh, NC, etc. etc. etc.

If you need that much in calling, and Voicepulse doesn't work for ya, maybe look at the big guys. The Death Star, Big Red V, and CenturyLink do have SIP trunking for a more than Voicepulse but offers much more, like decentralized low latency endpoints and great backbone transversal.

http://www.business.att.com/enterprise/Service/voice-services/null/sip-trunking/
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/industry/public_sector/federal/contracts/wits3/products/voice/voip_trunking.xml
http://www.centurylink.com/business/voice/sip-trunk.html

Of course, there are hundreds of other CLECs out there that might offer a better solution. As I've said before, most companies buy from Level3 for their VoIP ambitions, if not for routing but for even the local numbers. Sometimes its just as good to go with someone else because they offer a better price for the same thing.

@art_of_shred said:

If it stays as is and you just "do whatever you want", it's going to end badly.

Here's a pic of AJ doing just that.