How can I preserve share paths when moving a share to a new server?

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I have 2 servers and I just moved most of the shares from server1 (SBS 2003 server) to server2 (Server 2003 Standard).

However, in sharepoint there are a lot of links that refer to the old server by name, ie, \\server1\accounts.

How can I have the shares physically on the new (larger) server, while preserving these links and having them still work.

Cheers,

Sam

makrusan · Answer 1 · 2010-03-03 23:02:59Z

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Or you can go by the way which ms advising - use File Server Migration Toolkit (whitepaper)

It creates dfs root folder, in which both servers (old and new) are targeted. And than you remove old server fro dfs.

answered Mar 3 '10 at 23:02

	I'll check that out, thanks – user36665 Mar 3 '10 at 23:05
	turns out to 'maintain original UNC paths' it requires server 2003 enterprise or higher, whereas I am using small business server. – user36665 Mar 7 '10 at 20:44
	Although more playing shows that creating a DFS root on the original server pointing at the second server works well. – user36665 Mar 7 '10 at 20:57

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jishi · Answer 2 · 2010-03-03 22:51:01Z

Are you keeping server1? If not, you can just add a manual DNS-entry in your domain-zone on your AD-server for server1, that points to server2.

Second option might be to rename server1 to something else, and then add a DNS-record for the old name (server1) that points to server2.

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