16 September, 2010

Access server shares under different server name

If you done a file server move you know that as much as you want you cannot be sure if you covered all the places with the old server name.
A simple solution is to change the ip address of the old server after you shut it down to the new one, right?

Well, not that easy, Windows Server has a build in protection against accessing the server with an alias names.

I'm here to tell you that you can bypass that with a small registry key
At the end everything comes to a registry key :)

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters]
"DisableStrictNameChecking"=dword:00000001

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Enjoy

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