Hi,

I'm looking into decomissioning one of our old file servers and redirecting
anything that accesses its dns name to our new file server (due to hard coded
links in excel), so for example all links accessing filer1 are pointed to
filer2 via DNS.

I have tried creating a CNAME DNS entry with the old sever name pointing to
the new server name, however I recieve an error message saying there are
duplicate enteries on the network when trying to access any shares on the new
server.

Can anyone recommend, or suggest what I'm doing wrong here?

Marcus

Try this one: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;281308
Anthony
http://www.airdesk.co.uk



"Marcus Dempsey" <MarcusDempsey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm looking into decomissioning one of our old file servers and
> redirecting
> anything that accesses its dns name to our new file server (due to hard
> coded
> links in excel), so for example all links accessing filer1 are pointed to
> filer2 via DNS.
>
> I have tried creating a CNAME DNS entry with the old sever name pointing
> to
> the new server name, however I recieve an error message saying there are
> duplicate enteries on the network when trying to access any shares on the
> new
> server.
>
> Can anyone recommend, or suggest what I'm doing wrong here?
>
> Marcus

Thanks Antony that s me with my testing. My actual re-pointing is going
to go to a netapp filer, so I don't suppose you know if using a CNAME DNS
entry has any issues?

Marcus

"Anthony" wrote:

> Try this one: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;281308
> Anthony
> http://www.airdesk.co.uk
>
>
>
> "Marcus Dempsey" <MarcusDempsey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EF94832C-8AB7-4581-A2A8-4C09BD246C1A@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking into decomissioning one of our old file servers and
> > redirecting
> > anything that accesses its dns name to our new file server (due to hard
> > coded
> > links in excel), so for example all links accessing filer1 are pointed to
> > filer2 via DNS.
> >
> > I have tried creating a CNAME DNS entry with the old sever name pointing
> > to
> > the new server name, however I recieve an error message saying there are
> > duplicate enteries on the network when trying to access any shares on the
> > new
> > server.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend, or suggest what I'm doing wrong here?
> >
> > Marcus
>
>
>