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The Sysvol directory on Windows boxes is not one that it's recommended to play with, as it holds all sorts of 'system' stuff essential for the safe running of Windows. Hence if you do try to access it with File Manager, you'll find you don't have permissions to do so - by design. However, sometimes it goes bad and access it one must. Here's how.. [...] Read more

It's not uncommon to find that C$ is getting low on space after a few years and often this is due to a mixture of junk files but also Sysvol. Sysvol keeps all sorts of stuff in it, much essential to the well being of the server, but it can also hide large files that are no longer needed, such as old Shadowcopies. We recently had to provide first [...] Read more

If you have a fully fledged VM environment which has an Enterprise licence, then moving virtual machines from one datasource to another is trivial, as VMotion can mange this easily. But if you are using the free ESX version or perhaps don't have shared storage, then VMotion is not an option. It should be possible to use a tool like Veeam to backup [...] Read more

It is not uncommon tyo try to log onto a Domain PC and get the dreaded 'Lost Trust' error message, which prevents Domain logons. We've covered this before on this site and the classic way to fix this used to be to 'logon locally, leave domain, re-join domain'. A better way is to use Power Shell which is quicker and avoids reboots. But.. these all [...] Read more

/etc/init.d/services.sh stop /etc/init.d/opentftp.sh stop /etc/init.d/Qthttpd.sh stop umount /dev/mapper/cachedev1 e2fsck_64 -f -v -C 0 /dev/mapper/cachedev1 reboot But does not fully work on some versions of the OS...

It's often useful to fnd out 'stuff' about a QNAP NAS via SSH.. Here are a few examples. [~] # df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ramdisk 32.9M 16.7M 16.2M 51% / tmpfs 64.0M 204.0k 63.8M 0% /tmp /dev/sda4 371.0M 371.0M 0 100% /mnt/ext /dev/md9 509.5M 138.0M 371.4M 27% /mnt/HDA_ROOT /dev/md0 5.4T 3.3T 2.1T 61% /share/MD0_DATA [...] Read more

Shutdown via SSH /sbin/poweroff Reboot via SSH reboot If shutting down from windows cmd line or batch script, this works .. Setup a SSH session from putty using port 22. And save the session as QNAP-Name in the same directory where putty is installed create a txtfile called poweroff.txt within that file type poweroff and save. Assuming your [...] Read more

Housekeeping...always good to do but never enough time! I recently had to look over a client's VM system which had been vMotioned and generally updated through various generations of hardware and software, starting in 2005. (It's now 2022..) It was all working fine but I noticed that the 'conflict and deleted' directories had many tens of [...] Read more