On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:06 AM, John Hornbuckle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So here's what I was thinking of doing... I'd like to create a DNS record for
> a new, generic server name--maybe "profiles"--and point it to the IP address
> of oldserver.
Historically, Windows SMB could never handle alias names properly.
They'd sort of work, but be unreliable. Things may have improved with
2003 or 2008; my information is old.
As others have suggested, I would use DFS for this kind of thing.
Indeed, I do just that. "\\domain\Profiles\" is an DFS alias for
"\\MAGNUM\Profiles" here. ("domain" being instead of the domain, but
"MAGNUM" being a server.)
-- Ben
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