Moving Network Shared Folders

[AustinLD]

I'm working on a better case solution. We have several shares that were at remote sites on physical servers. We are pulling them all into our DC and consolidating our storage. What we are trying to do is move the shares to the new server and not have to change mapped drives. We are primarily a Mac environment so pushing these through GP isn't possible even though we already do on our few PC's we have. Anyways a quick breakdown. Server1 has folder AllStaff so unc is \\server1\d$\AllStaff we want to move AllStaff to a new drive on a new server call it server2. The new unc would be \\server2\d$\AllStaff. We want the user to be able to open \\server1\d$\AllStaff and be taken to \\server2\d$\AllStaff where the new share will be. This would allow us to shutdown the physical servers. Is there a good way to do this that works on both PC and MAC?

 

Thank you,

Austin

[Steve21]

Never tried it with MACs, but you can add alternative server names (or DNS redirects) so both server1 and server2 would resolve to the new server

 

At least that way until you change over all the Server1 links should still work

 

Steve