samba - Nov 2004 - Spoof server name to redirect calls to another server?

Hi,

I've got an ageing NT4 server on our NT4 domain. The hardware is getting
unreliable and few people use it. Unfortunately/predicatably the few
people who use it are senior staff and they have some (important,
naturally) Excel spreadsheets which link to files on this server by
name.

As I haven't been entirely successful in weening them off this server
I've been keeping it ticking over but I wondered if there was a way to
remove the server but keep the UNC name for the share alive and get it
redirected to another location, i.e. I get rid of SERVER1 but somehow
keep requests for \\SERVER1\SHARE going to \\SERVER2\SHARE.

Is there a Samba solution to this?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Leon...

Leon Stringer ?rta:
>Hi,
>
>I've got an ageing NT4 server on our NT4 domain. The hardware is getting
>unreliable and few people use it. Unfortunately/predicatably the few
>people who use it are senior staff and they have some (important,
>naturally) Excel spreadsheets which link to files on this server by
>name.
>
>As I haven't been entirely successful in weening them off this server
>I've been keeping it ticking over but I wondered if there was a way to
>remove the server but keep the UNC name for the share alive and get it
>redirected to another location, i.e. I get rid of SERVER1 but somehow
>keep requests for \\SERVER1\SHARE going to \\SERVER2\SHARE.
>
>Is there a Samba solution to this?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help,
>
>Leon...
>
>  
>
See smb.conf manpage for netbios alias, or a DNS CNAME record if you 
aren't using NETBIOS at all

Good Luck!

Geza