This works well. We used it for this exact situation. We consolidated several old file server onto our NetApps and just aliased the filers in DNS and using the CIFS Alias feature (takes care of NetBIOS registration).
The one caveat to this is folder & share names. If you have \serverA\foo and \serverB\foo you'll need to resolve this collision before moving your data and setting up the shares. If there are no share name collisions, you're good to go.
DFS (from Microsoft) could also solve some of this but that's definitely a topic for a separate discussion.
Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP National Instruments
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"Glenn Dekhayser" gdekhayser@voyantinc.com Sent by: owner-toasters@mathworks.com 07/26/2007 04:26 PM
To letta@jlab.org, toasters@mathworks.com cc
Subject RE: CIFS shares presentation to users
You should use the CIFS Aliases feature, your new filer answers for both of the other names as well....works as longas you don't have conflicting share names on the two older filers.
-Glenn @ Voyant
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner- toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Paul Letta Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:17 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: CIFS shares presentation to users
Hello,
We we getting ready to consolidate several older filers onto a single FAS3040. Each of these older filers had several CIFS shares exposed. My users are used to going to the Run box in windows and typing \filerA to get filersA's shares and \filerB to get filer B's shares and so
on.
But now there is just \Newfiler. This produces a list of all the
CIFS
shares that used to be on several different filers.
Is there a way to group several cifs shares together and present them in a folder, or another share ?
I would like to be able to go to \NewFiler, and get a window that has a few folders, each of which holds several shares.
I don't think this can be done, but I thought I would ask here
anyways.
Thanks,
Paul