I was trying to copy some big files over the network to another server, and I mapped the destination drives in the local server for easy copying. However I kept getting errors in my script, which I suspected because the drives getting disconnected. Here is how to set it to not disconnect. Run as administrator […]
Month: January 2019
TIL how to check the bandwidth between 2 servers
We subscribed for a dedicated line between 2 datacenters, and when we were trying to copy some files over, it was really slow. We were supposed to get few MB/s transfer rate, but were getting only 20KB/s which was unacceptable. We needed to make a clear case with the service provider to get their support […]
How I recovered an unbootable Linux server hosted in OVH/SoYouStart
My friend has a server hosted in SoYouStart, and suddenly the server went down and nobody knew why. He asked my helped to bring it back online. We tried to boot into recovery mode from the console, and we were able to login using the credentials sent by them. We were also able to download […]
How to fix the error “an authentication error has occurred(code 0x80004005)” when connecting through RDP.
Ever since the policy to disable TLS 1.0 was pushed down to the local machines, we started getting the error “an authentication error has occurred(code 0x80004005)” when accessing few of our Windows 2008 R2 servers. It was interesting because we have a bunch of other servers with no problems accessing. This seems to be a […]
Fix “Failed to open Group Policy Object. You might not have the appropriate rights” error
I was facing this error in one of my servers while trying to open gpedit, with additional message “The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid”. Here is how I fixed it. 1) Enable view hidden files from explorer. 2) Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine 3)Rename the […]
Fix problems in trusting files from a DFS namespace
So we migrated our fileshare to a DFS namespace and we started facing a lot of problems. One of the most annoying one was, no matter how we trust the source, the powershell scripts from the DFS namspaces were not able to run, as they give warning. Interestingly, problem was that the FQDN of the […]