Replicating share information

[jaeddy]

Situation:

2 W2K member servers in an NT4.0 Domain

1 server is a temporary file server set up after the catastrophic failure of our original file server. All data was restored and the shares on it were recreated manually, one at a time...

New server is built and ready to take over. We can robocopy the files over and retain the NTFS security information, but what I'd like to do is also replicate the share info and avoid having to reconstruct some 150 shares by hand.

Note- we are NOT in an Active Directory domain.

I've only just started researching this, but I thought dropping a note here wouldn't hurt.

 

[GWINTO]

Have you tried restoring the shares from tape to the new server, try 1 first to see if it retains its original config.

 

[jaeddy]

Unfortunately the backup method we are using has a number of, shall we say, "features" that prevented this. We are not (currently) backing up the registry or open files. It's really quite lovely, in a horrific, Satanic sort of way.

 

[jaeddy]

This turned out to be a no-brainer- copying the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\shares key and importing it to the new file server handled it quite nicely. I KNOW I used to know that...