I would use aliases to redirect calls to the old server(s). You would first have to take the old server out of the domain before creating the alias.
Regards, Hank Arnold My Blog: <http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/> http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/ Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96> https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew W. Ross Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 2:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Consolidating odd-ball fileservers Hey everyone. I have a few odd-ball servers that are all acting as file servers. I want to consolidate them to a single server, but I wouldn't mind keeping the server names the same to keep everything looking the same for the end users. My simplistic example: Server1 with 'drivers' and 'scratch' share Server2 with 'apps' share. I want to make a single server that will respond weather you go to \\server1\drivers <file:///\\server1\drivers> or \\server2\apps <file:///\\server2\apps> . There are no collisions in the share namespaces. I could make the server a single windows PC, and enter the DNS entry for both of them to point to the same system. Would that be sufficient? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District
