The following possible solution will depend on your
infrastructure.
If you have a DNS server on the network (assume you do
for Active Directory on Win2k Server), it is possible to
create an alias record (CNAME) to point to the new
server. Depending on the configuration of your network
infrastructure, you could do the following:
Scenario:
Current shares on server1,
User maps to \\server1\sharename
New Server is server2
Create identical shares on new server. Move data across and assign permissions.
Create DNS CNAME record.
New Record: Server1 CNAME Server2
An 'A' record will already exist for Server2
Take Server1 offline and remove any entries from DNS
that refer to Server 1 (apart from the CNAME record you
just created).
The Result:
User still maps to \\server1\sharename. During DNS
lookup for server1, the CNAME Record refers to server2.
The 'A' record for server2 resolves the IP address for
server2, and hence the mapping can go ahead.
The following link takes you to a microsoft explanation:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;168322&Product=win2000
Hope it helps!!
Cheers
Dan
