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Hi, Not sure if this is the right category to post under, but since it's transfer speed related I'd thought I'd put it here. Basically, we are contemplating replacing our Redstore remote backup solution with something that makes use of the fact we have multiple sites. We have been experimenting with File Server to NAS and NAS to NAS across our ISP's MPLS connection. But we are finding that backups are taking a LOT longer than when going to Redstore. Now both Redstore and our SMB based approaches both use the same internet connections to do the job so I can only conclude that SMB is rubbish and that Redstore use clever compression and streaming technologies to achieve higher transfer speeds. So with that said. Can anyone recommend any solution that can backup to NAS at speed? I'm guessing the NAS will need to support whatever transfer method is required so the application probably needs to run on the NAS (we have currently been using Synology DSM). Anyone managed to do this successfully? Many thanks in advance!

So, it's been fun here on my own... Still, I'm going to report that I have resolved my issues by using direct assignment. I gave up on the UNC path based local printer sharing in the end. It seems that in Server 2012 (probably Server 2008 onwards) this just isn't the way to do it anymore. To clarify (and for anyone else with the same problem), the final set up I now have is as follows: TCP/IP printers connected directly to the 2012R2 Print Server and shared using print management's "Deploy with Group Policy..." option. Locally shared printers (those connected via USB to a client PC) are now shared using the following steps: On the Print Server, in Print Management, add the hosting PC as a Print Server. Using the hosts print server node on the actual Print Server, configure the USB printer remotely. Set it as shared, name it and list it in the directory. Use "Deploy with Group Policy..." option to assign to a GPO dedicated to that printer, using the "per machine option". Assign the printer's GPO wherever I want the printer to be available. This then allows me to see all local printers via the Print Server, yet they are all deployed with direct connections to the hosting PCs. Seems to work nicely.

I've still not fixed this one. But I've narrowed it down to having something to do with the communication with the PC hosting the printer. Looking in system32\spool\PRINTERS on the server, the spool files from a print sent from a client PC do appear. Then a message appears on the client PC that printing failed. As I mentioned, we have about 10 printers shared this way and only ONE still works as it used to. I've been using the working example to compare to the failing printers and can see no difference whatsoever in terms of configuration on either the print server or the hosting PC. I am at a real loss. It feels like, for some reason the final step of sending the spooled documents from the server to the hosting PC is failing. I am sure of this because if watch the host PC PRINTERS folder on the one working PC/PRINTER spool files appear when sending from a client PC. However watching the PRINTERS folder on a failing PC/PRINTER, no spool files appear. So the flow seems to be like this: Working: SEND JOB >> Local Spool >> Server Spool >> Host Spool >> PRINT Failing: SEND JOB >> Local Spool >> Server Spool --| Failure | Which suggests some sort of permissions thing. I thought about hardening. However it appears that since the particular print server is still 2003 the required reg key is not present. I have also set the hosting PCs PRINTERS folder to pretty wide access with Users and Everyone with full write access. But what other permissions could I change? Any help is much appreciated.

I'm pretty sure the issue is with either the PC attempting to print or the print server as in failure situations nothing ever hits the PC hosting the printer. Event logs do show messages on one of the print servers though (the 2012 R2). We get the following message, which could be the reason for failure on that print server.The print job 25 was sent through the print processor winprint on printer TURTLES, driver Brother DCP-J132W Printer, in the isolation mode 0 (0 - loaded in the spooler, 1 - loaded in shared sandbox, 2 - loaded in isolated sandbox). Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 0x3F. Googled it and tried a few things but no joy. Any ideas?

So there are two print servers PS1 and PS2. The following scenario explains what is occurring: \\PS1\ORANGE - NOT working \\PS2\ORANGE - NOT working \\PS1\APPLE - Working!! \\PS2\APPLE - NOT working PS1 is our original print server and is server 2003 and APPLE has been on it set up on it for years. PS2 is a new server 2012 R2 VM ORANGE stopped working suddenly on PS1 and has since been deleted and recreated many times. APPLE has been added to PS2 for testing and fails just like ORANGE We still have several printers on PS1 like APPLE that continue to work! The thing that is totally wrecking me here is that APPLE is failing on PS2! Which suggests that there could be an issue with PS2 somehow. But then ORANGE is still failing on PS1, which suggest an issue with PS1 aswell. But then why does APPLE continue to work fine on PS1?

The printers are Brother DCP-J132W inkjet printers. That up till recently worked fine. The drivers I have are showing as false for packaged! They are 2013 drivers and I think the newest I can obtain. My gut says this all started because we introduced windows Server 2012 as the DC, whereas previously (when it was working fine) they were Server 2008. So it's possibly down to some sort of Group Policy update that has maybe added some new restriction or is implementing a setting we have differently. Figuring that out though will be tricky though.

The scenario is this: Local printer shared on PC1 as PRINTER Added to print server as local port \\PC1\PRINTER Shared on print server as CLASSX and listed in directory Assigned to other PCs in class as CLASSX This has worked for us for a long time. It's how we share our many local printers (we are a special school so local printers are great for the kids). Recently this stopped working. The print server can send jobs and they print fine. As can any PC that connects directly to \\PC1\PRINTER. However any job that goes to CLASSX and so via the proxy share on the print server, fails.So my questions are:Has anyone come across this before and have any ideas where to look?Can anyone offer a better way to share local printers across the network? Some more details below...

Hi, Just to let anyone reading this know. I have resolved this now. The "Allow Cross-Forest..." and DNS Suffix things are really all there is to it apart from setting up the Trust Relationship correctly. For me the issue was that I had a User Policy applied to the machine that had loopback processing on and was enforced. Which I think meant it always won and overrode the user policy coming from the other domain. I removed the computer from that OU and the script started running. So, tip is, check that you don't have any enforced loop back processed GPO's applied to a PC you want users to login to from another domain (and still run their logon scripts).

[TD="bgcolor: #F5F5F5"]Hi, I'm hoping for some help related to login scripts when logging onto another domain. Here is the scenario: We have two domains DOM_A (server2003) and DOM_B (server2008). They are set up in a trust relationship and there is no problem opening files or browsing computers cross domain. But login scripts do not run when logging onto a DOM_B machine with a DOM_A account. For example we login with DOM_A\user to machine.DOM_B.local. The login script contains the drive mappings and these do not appear because of this problem. I have already done the following: - Checked that I have the "Allow Cross-Forest User Policy and Roaming User Profiles" policy enabled on the machine in question. - Added the DNS suffix DOM_A.local to the machine in DOM_B via Group Policy. - Checked DOM_B DNS and ensured that the DC for DOM_A was not also in the DOM_B DNS list. None of this has helped and the logon script still does not run. There is no problem reaching or running the script once logged in. But something is stopping it from running during logon. Either it's a group policy issue or a DNS one. I just cant figure out which or how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.