Access shares on my computer using different computer name

Question

I'm running Windows 10 Pro on a home network. No domain.

Background: As a developer, I use source control for my projects. I have many projects. They all reference the source control location like this: \sol\Data\SourceSafe. Now, SOL was my terastation (NAS). It died. All the data is now on my local PC called VAL. So my source control location is now \\VAL\Data\SourceSafe. However, I really really want to avoid changing that in all my projects.

Goal: I want to use some kind of trickery in order to have VAL respond as SOL, and thereby have \\SOL\Data\SourceSafe work again as if it has not changed physical location.

What I've tried so far

I've added an entry in my hosts file using the IP address of my computer, VAL:

10.107.1.133     sol

I can now ping sol successfully.

However, inspite of having the 'alias' in place for the host name, I cannot use the Data share.

dir \\val\data\SourceSafe --> works
dir \\sol\data\SourceSafe --> The user name or password is incorrect
dir \\sol\data --> same

Mapping a drive letter and explicitly specifying my username and password (when prompted)

C:\WINDOWS\system32>net use * \\sol\data /user:swatt
Enter the password for 'swatt' to connect to 'sol':
System error 86 has occurred.

The specified network password is not correct.

I have also tried adding the DisableStrictNameChecking registry entry and rebooting, but no change.

So, how can I make the \\sol\data\SourceSafe path work again?

Thanks much! Sandra

Answer 1

Can you not change your machine name to SOL instead, or is VAL important?

Alternatively, is there a reason you don't want to change it in your projects? It would surely just be a quick find and replace across all files?

Otherwise, I believe you'd need your own DNS server to handle it, or you could try this:

http://windowsitpro.com/networking/how-can-i-define-multiple-netbios-names-machine