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
>