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Best way to change file server shares to UNC?
Currently at our business we use normal file shares on our file server to share folders. When I say normal I mean \\servername\filefolder instead of using a Universal Naming Convention. I'd like to make this as painless as possible for my users to switch over to a UNC so that I can move file shares to other servers and use the same network location.
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Well, at some point, your users will have to start using the new paths to get to the shares. The process would be to install DFS then setup the DFS shares to point to all the shares you currently have. You would then need to go through and have all your users start using the new shares. You might even want to create new shares on your servers with a $ at the end so they are admin shares and not easily seen by your users so they don't use them instead of the DFS shares (for instance, add a new share for \\server\share as \\server\share$ and use this new share as the target for the DFS share). Then when you think everyone has moved to the DFS shares, you can remove the old shares, leaving just the admin shares that are the targets of the DFS shares. Then you can move things around whenever you want and all you have to do is update the DFS targets. Your users won't know the difference. I tend to implement DFS even if I'm not using it for the replication and redundancy, just so I have flexibility if I need to move some shares or change a server around.
Hope this helps.
Usually you would manage the access to the folder with NTFS permissions rather than share permissions. It becomes more complicated if you try to use both. You will just need to check the share permissions on each share before you move it. What I would do is as you add the share to DFS, check the share permissions on the share and then create the DFS share (and the admin share if that's the route you want to go). I would recommend setting the share permissions to everyone:full control and modify the NTFS permissions to control access. This way no matter how the files are accessed, no matter which share point is used to access the files, the access control is still in place. If you use share permissions, then you run into the problem you are thinking of in that if you create another share, you have to make sure to copy the share permissions.
Hope this helps.
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I actually downloaded that one and tried to connect to my Sharepoint but it wouldn't work fully. It let me browse Sharepoint to the right folder I needed to set permissions to, but then wouldn't let me change anything on the Sharepoint. I'll try disabling my HTTP>HTTPS redirection to see if that's the culprit.
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by: sirbountyPosted on 2009-03-23 at 12:17:08ID: 23961196
that is a unc path. I think you mean like implementing dfs or something?
Perhaps setting up an alias during the transition anyway...?