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If you are using RDP over an ADSL connection then I would recommend you check the MTU (Maxiumum Transmission Unit) settings, on the router and the NIC in Windows. You can use a tool called DrTCP to change the settings in Windows. Your ISP will be able to tell you what MTU to use. HTH Dai

I have an Intel MFSYS25 Modular Server and at the moment each module is running Windows Web Server 2008. I intend to use this for web and email hosting (to upgrade our existing equipment). I may have to replace Web Server 2008 if it doesn't do everything I need, such as clustering etc. Each server has dual 3GHz Xeon processors and 4GB RAM. I only have 7x68GB SAS drives at the moment but intend to expand this at a later date. So far it all seems perfectly compatible and works like a dream. I've had no errors, crashes or BSODs etc so far :)

I'm not really sure where to start looking. The RAID is easily configured through the web interface of the MFSYS25 so there is very little to mis-configure. From searching around I keep reading that Windows only supports a 'shared-nothing' configuration. I'm not sure what this means but maybe it's a limitation of Windows that menas I can't have the SAN shared between multiple servers as I want to. Unfortunately I only have Web Server 2008 and not Enterprise, so don't have access to all the clustering tools that could help me out. There may be another way around it, but all I want to acheive is for 2 mail servers to access the same data, so that if one fails NLB directs all requests to the remaining server and the same live data is still available. I don't want to set up any replication scripts to kick in every 5 minutes or something. Thanks, Dave

Hi all. I am in the process of setting up a brand new Intel MFSYS 25 modular server system with Windows Web Server 2008 for the purpose of hosting redundant web and mail servers. The MFSYS25 has a shared LUN feature which allows me to create a RAID5 drive and allow multiple servers to access it at the same time. Which is great, because I have created individual system partitions (drive C) for the OS and a shared data partition (D drive) for web files and email to be stored. However, although all servers can see the D: drive it would seem that they can't access the same files at the same time. For example, I have several folders in there and while Server1 can read/write using folder1 and Server2 can read/write using folder2, if I create a new folder on Server1 it won't appear on Server2 until I reboot (sometimes it feels the need to run a disk check). I'm assuming this is a limitation of Windows Web Server but am hoping someone can confirm this and help me with a workaround, as I'm only hosting simple web sites and email accounts so don't want the expense of Enterprise edition. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Dai

Hello. The word 'domain' in this forum title is mis-spelled - DNS (Domian Name Services) :) Dai Edit: Oops, just spotted a forum just for posting bugs and things. Sorry. I dare say a mod will move this accordingly.