Win2K Sharing / Server has two DNS entries...

[NcCorduan]

All,

We have a network with Windows 2000 servers and primarily Windows 2000 clients. Network print queues are currently housed on a server called ACADDC3 and are about to be moved to a newer server called ACADSRV3. In the mean time, to try and smooth the transition, we've created a second DNS entry for ACADDC3 called PRINTSRV3. The thought is to change everyone's mappings to point to PRINTSRV3 and then, when that's done with, adjust the DNS host entry to point to ADADSRV3's IP address rather ACADDC3's...

Problem is, even though the DNS host PRINTSRV3 is fuly pingable and indeed resolves to the same IP address as ACADDC3, we cannot access any of the shares -- folders or printers -- on ACADDC3 using the PRINTSRV3 name.

For instance, \\ACADDC3\ISL1F is an active printer share, but \\PRINTSRV3\ISL1F is inaccssible, even though, as I said the IP addresses are identical.

Is Windows 2000 so tied to the AD that share names have to be based on the actual computer name rather than DNS entries, so that our nifty workaround is doomed to fail?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

 

[butchrecon]

I believe so> I am not 100% sure though. Active directory gets its database of Computers and share names not off of the IP scheme, but based on the PC name. Hence the error when you attempt to ping the share using a different name. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[NcCorduan]

Thanks, James -- that's what I suspected.