-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marc Muehlfeld wrote: > Frank Bonnet schrieb: >> We are on the way to upgrade our PDC from 2.2.8 to 3.2.11 >> as we do not want to reconfigure the PDC IP address on several >> hundreds of windows XP clients we have chosen to keep the same >> IP address for the new PDC. > > Why you use IPs on the client instead of names? Here we resolve > everything by Wins/DNS. So no need for using IPs. > > > >> The problem is windows clients does not update the name of network >> drives and keep the old names even connected to the new PDC server >> and it's new shares ... > > You mean the name of the server or from the shares? > If you keep the IP you can also name the new server as the old one (what > I would suggest). And if the shares also keep their names, nothing > changes out of client sight.
it is the case > > How are the shares connected? If you use a logon script, you can change > this. > Just disconnect all old shares before you map it. And if the shares are > mapped with "/PERSISTENT:NO", they are automatically disconnected after > logoff. OK I'm gonna try this > > And don't forget to set the domain SID of the new server to the one of > your old server. Otherwise your clients doesn't accept the new server as > PDC for the domain, even if the domain name is the same. > Of course the SID is the same > > Regards, > Marc > > > Thanks a lot for your help. Frank -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkonhsIACgkQ6f7UMO5oSsW3FgCghWvvEQi/MKZDE9IfgMkjWt4G v1kAn06s7EbLxTx5UgDszicB4Utf7O/4 =betF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba