Showing posts with label file server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label file server. Show all posts

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