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File Share Witness doesn't work - 15.Feb.2007 5:21:04 PM

SilverICE

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I've done something wrong setting up my CCR and my File Share Witness isn't working. When I reboot or shut down one of my cluster nodes the entire cluster goes down until the other node comes back up. So it seems I don't have a majority when one of the nodes is down.

From a command prompt on both nodes I can successfully run 'cluster res "Majority Node Set" /priv'. They both point to the correct path of the share on my HT server.

Any clues on how to troubleshoot this?

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RE: File Share Witness doesn't work - 16.Feb.2007 2:42:33 AM

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And you configured the permissions on the File Share Witness share correctly?

Has any content been create in the respective share?

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RE: File Share Witness doesn't work - 19.Feb.2007 4:44:57 PM

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Yes, I've double checked the permissions per your CCR build documentation, and have even opened it wide up to everyone. I can browse to the share from the exchange server and there is content in the foler. Any ideas before I wipe and start over?

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RE: File Share Witness doesn't work - 20.Feb.2007 4:08:52 PM

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Hmm nope not really

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RE: File Share Witness doesn't work - 21.Feb.2007 10:33:05 AM

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Just for my own clarification: a CCR cluster should fail over just like a single copy clustered Exchange 2003 server with shared storage, correct? To test failover, I should be able to restart the active node which would initiate failover, right?

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RE: File Share Witness doesn't work - 20.Dec.2007 5:18:36 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: SilverICE

I've done something wrong setting up my CCR and my File Share Witness isn't working. When I reboot or shut down one of my cluster nodes the entire cluster goes down until the other node comes back up. So it seems I don't have a majority when one of the nodes is down.

From a command prompt on both nodes I can successfully run 'cluster res "Majority Node Set" /priv'. They both point to the correct path of the share on my HT server.

Any clues on how to troubleshoot this?

I have the exact same problem.

I'm sure that my File Share Witness works. I can clean the directory en when I do a failover it fills up with the expected files again. Rights are ok.
'cluster res "Majority Node Set" /priv' show me the correct path. I'm using a cname record and i've set the "DisableStrictNameChecking" registry key.
If i do a manual failover for the exchange group and the cluster group all works fine.
But when I reboot the HUB server wich has the File Share Witness on it, my cluster crashes. When the HUB server is back online everything comes back online. Same thing happens when I pull the public network cable from the active node. The cluster service on both cluster nodes is stopped until I plugin the network cable again. Then it initiates the failover the the other node.

I'm going crazy finding a solution for this.

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