How do you serve multiple network names with W2k8 Enterprise?

Question

I am new to Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, my past experience is with W2k3. This question is about changing our development environment from a pair of clustered W2k3 Ent. servers over to a new single W2k8 Ent. server.

On our W2k3 environment, we have a variety of network names served up as Network Name resources from within Cluster Administrator. Worked like a champ.

In W2k8 Ent., is there a way to serve up multiple network names without having to set up a cluster environment? (gut feeling wonders if it's just a case of serving up names in DNS)

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '10 at 18:25

1

The most simple way would be to add CNAME records in DNS

answered Dec 14 '10 at 18:25

trozz

557
2
12

Keep it simple. – voodooo Dec 14 '10 at 19:08
This isn't enough to serve CIFS / SMB on multiple names, though. – Evan Anderson Dec 14 '10 at 22:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '10 at 18:26

Depends on what you need : pure DNS alias or a SMB (CIFS) alias.

If you need a CIFS alias the netdom.exe command will work wonder.

netdom computername /add:mynewalias

netdom computername /enum

The /setprimary and /remove switches are useful when renaming.

It will register a DNS alias AND a SMB alias. Reboot may be required for everything to work smoothly (maybe useless since 2k8)

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

0

If you're just talking about serving the CIFS file and print sharing protocol with various "alias" names have a look at How to Configure Windows Machine to Allow File Sharing with DNS Alias.

For other protocols it may be a matter of creating a CNAME record in DNS or, if the protocol is "name aware" (like, say, HTTP with host headers) you may need to do some protocol level configuration.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

Community

1

answered Dec 14 '10 at 18:24

Evan Anderson

141,071
19
191
328

How do you serve multiple network names with W2k8 Enterprise?

3 Answers3