Moving a "Share Name"

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Hank Arnold

I have a situation that I need to work around. I'm not completely up all the
specific technical details on how it's currently being done, so bear with
me...

We have a server that has a bunch of shares. They are all pointing to sub
folders of one folder called USERDATA (shared as USERDATA on the server). Of
course, I can map a network drive to these shares by using

\\servername\ShareName

A couple of years ago, we set up (with the help of a vendor) a second server
and assigned it as a High Availability "standby" server using software
called LifeKeeper (similar to Double Take). The software monitors a
"heartbeat" over a crossover cable and if it detects that the other server
has gone off line, it does a whole bunch of stuff and brings the "standby"
server up as the primary and restores access without any apparent change to
the users (other than a temp loss of connectivity).

This failover had to include the shares I was mentioning. What was done was
we set up a LANMAN name in DNS called USERFILES and assigned it an IP
address. Then the software was set up to create a resource that essentially
created a "global" share called "USERFILES" and assigned the local share
(USERDATA), drive and IP address to it. This allows the shares to be
accessed via

\\USERFILES\ShareName

When the system fails over, it moves and activates the resource on the
standby server before it brings it online, thus allowing the drive mappings
to work w/o impacting the clients.

My problem (finally!) is that I need to break this HA cluster and leave the
primary as a standalone server. Unfortunately, this means removing the
software that is creating the share I need. What I need it a way to create a
way for the

\\USERFILES\ShareName

to continue work on the server without the vendor software. It might be
obvious, but how can I do this??
 
Suggest you hit their support website at:
http://licensing.steeleye.com/support/.

Without specific "Lifekeeper" experience, no one will be able to help.
Perhaps someone here has that, I dunno... but I don't.

From their site...
--------------------
For Licensed Customers
For any technical questions about LifeKeeper
please contact us at:
Toll-free in North America 1-877-457-5113
International +1-803-461-3970

For Non-Licensed Customers
If you are in the process of evaluating LifeKeeper and have technical
questions, contact Pre-Sales Technical Help at:
Toll-free in North America 1-877-319-0108
International +1-803-461-3885
 
No. The question is:

How do I set up a server (LANMAN/Shares/etc.) so that I can map a network
drive on clients as

\\USERFILES\<Share>

instead of the "usual"

\\servername\sharename

I'm trying to avoid the necessity of changing a whole bunch of clients
twice. I need to uninstall the LifeKeeper software on the server that is
currently providing the mapped drives. That will cause the current mapped
drives to fail and require I change the mappings for a whole bunch of
clients. It will be a while before I have an opportunity to move the data
files to the new server and create the LifeKeeper resources at which point I
will have to change it back...
 
Hank Arnold said:
No. The question is:

How do I set up a server (LANMAN/Shares/etc.) so that I can map a network
drive on clients as

\\USERFILES\<Share>

instead of the "usual"

\\servername\sharename

You can't really do that. You can make a server named "UserFiles"
to fake it.
I'm trying to avoid the necessity of changing a whole bunch of clients
twice. I need to uninstall the LifeKeeper software on the server that is
currently providing the mapped drives. That will cause the current mapped
drives to fail and require I change the mappings for a whole bunch of
clients. It will be a while before I have an opportunity to move the data
files to the new server and create the LifeKeeper resources at which point
I will have to change it back...

In the long run, the answer is DFS -- Distributed File System.

Even if you don't want to use the replication features it is
valuable precisely for the reason of standardizing and stabiling
the file NAME SPACE.
 
Thanks, Herb...

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Regards,
Hank Arnold

Herb Martin said:
Hank Arnold said:
No. The question is:

How do I set up a server (LANMAN/Shares/etc.) so that I can map a network
drive on clients as

\\USERFILES\<Share>

instead of the "usual"

\\servername\sharename

You can't really do that. You can make a server named "UserFiles"
to fake it.
I'm trying to avoid the necessity of changing a whole bunch of clients
twice. I need to uninstall the LifeKeeper software on the server that is
currently providing the mapped drives. That will cause the current mapped
drives to fail and require I change the mappings for a whole bunch of
clients. It will be a while before I have an opportunity to move the data
files to the new server and create the LifeKeeper resources at which
point I will have to change it back...

In the long run, the answer is DFS -- Distributed File System.

Even if you don't want to use the replication features it is
valuable precisely for the reason of standardizing and stabiling
the file NAME SPACE.



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Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
[phone number on web site]
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Regards,
Hank Arnold

"Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP]"
 
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