Previous versions client windows server 2003

Join Tek-Tips Forums! Join Us! By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. Students Click Here. I installed the Previous Versions client on the server and on my windows xp workstation. On my workstation I can get the previous versions tab and use it just fine, but on the server I cannot get the previous versions tab. This is a problem since I am using Terminal Servers and most of my users will need to do this actually on the terminal server itself, not over a share.

I have found that accessing the file on the server locally via it's share instead of via the local filesystem actually allows you to use the previous versions tab. Surely Microsoft did not do this intentionally??!!! Why can't I access the previous versions tab on the locally via explorer on the server machine?

Am I missing something? Sign in to vote. I have one set of shared folders on noe server and a different set on another.

On my one file server which is Server storage server my previous version show up when i browse to those folders from my PC. My other file server is Server storage server and for the files on that server if i browse from any PC on the network and choose previous version i get no previous versions available.

I have checked the tab for the drive that each of these servers stores the files on and and it shows the shadow copies being made. Why is one server showing the previous versions and the other not? Automatically sign up today! Derek Schauland has been tinkering with Windows systems since Browse to the parent folder of the folder you are looking for. Right-click the folder for which you wish to view the shadow copy. Select Properties. In the Properties dialog box, click the Previous Versions tab.

You will see a number of shadow copies organized by date and time. The size of the list depends on the number of shadow copies you specified for the VSC service to keep.

Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you modify it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur. By default, Windows keeps only 64 snapshots per volume for previous versions. Setting this key to a value higher than the client system can handle prevents users from seeing the most recent previous versions.

The client-side limit for each operating system is as follows:. The client-side limit isn't adjustable.